CVE-2009-1889

CVE-2009-1889 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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