CVE-2008-2955 Information

Description

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/30881 http://secunia.com/advisories/32859 http://secunia.com/advisories/33102 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3966 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-493.htm http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:025 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1023.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493682/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29985 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-675-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1947 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10131 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A18050