CVE-2009-3085 Information

Description

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.2 does not properly handle an error IQ stanza during an attempted fetch of a custom smiley which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via XHTML-IM content with cid: images.

Reference

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/fd5955618eddcd84d522b30ff11102f9601f38c8 http://secunia.com/advisories/36601 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=37 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36277 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11223 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6434