CVE-2008-2955

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 7.3%

from disclosure to weapon209 days

Published on NVDJul 1

1st PoC+209d

exploitation probability

7.3%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/32749

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References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30881 http://secunia.com/advisories/32859 http://secunia.com/advisories/33102 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3966 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10131 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18050 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