Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1889

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-07-01 12:26:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 05:27:54

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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