Pidgin 2.5.5 and prior [High]

By Security Team on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 in Security Notifications | Related Software Packages:

Affects:

  • Pidgin 2.5.5 and prior [High]

Description

Buffer overflow in the XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server in Pidgin before 2.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an outbound XMPP file transfer. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-1373
Severity: High

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