CVE-2009-1889
EPSS 3.2%Published: 7/1/2009Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/pidginfrom 0, < 2.5.8-1