CVE-2008-2956

no score yetEPSS 2.0%

pidgin pidgin: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

EPSS: 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-399
Published: 2008-07-01
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pidgin:pidgin

References

http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1
http://secunia.com/advisories/31387
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495165/100/0/threaded

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