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CVE-2008-2957

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.4 Published: 2008-07-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL.

Affected Platforms

Pidgin Pidgin

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References