CVE-2009-1889 Information

Description

The OSCAR protocol implementation in Pidgin before 2.5.8 misinterprets the ICQWebMessage message type as the ICQSMS message type which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ICQ web message that triggers allocation of a large amount of memory.

Reference

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9483 http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2009-May/008227.html http://secunia.com/advisories/35693 http://secunia.com/advisories/35697 http://secunia.com/advisories/35706 http://secunia.com/advisories/37071 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1139.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35530 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-796-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1749 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508738 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51448 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10004 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00162.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00176.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00228.html