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CVE-2008-2956

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-07-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via malformed XML documents. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor, who states: "I was never able to identify a scenario under which a problem occurred and the original reporter wasn't able to supply any sort of reproduction details."

Affected Platforms

Pidgin Pidgin

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References