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CVE-2008-2955 at MITRE

Description

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.

NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Novell/SUSE information

Novell Bugzilla entries: 404163, 406416, 503447

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 for x86
  • finch >= 2.3.1-10.9
  • libpurple >= 2.3.1-10.9
  • pidgin >= 2.3.1-10.9
sled10-sp2.x86
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.ia64
sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.ppc
sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x
sle10-sp2-sdk.x86
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.x86
sled10-sp2.x86-64
sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc
sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.x86-64
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.s390x
ZYPP Patch Nr: 5573
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 DEBUGINFO for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 DEBUGINFO for IBM POWER
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 DEBUGINFO for IBM zSeries 64bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 DEBUGINFO for IPF
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 DEBUGINFO for x86
  • pidgin-debuginfo >= 2.3.1-10.9
sled10-sp2.x86
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.ia64
sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.ppc
sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x
sle10-sp2-sdk.x86
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.x86
sled10-sp2.x86-64
sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc
sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.x86-64
sles10-sp2-debuginfo.s390x
ZYPP Patch Nr: 5573
openSUSE 10.3
  • finch >= 2.3.1-26.2
  • finch-devel >= 2.3.1-26.2
  • libpurple >= 2.3.1-26.2
  • libpurple-devel >= 2.3.1-26.2
  • libpurple-meanwhile >= 2.3.1-26.2
  • libpurple-mono >= 2.3.1-26.2
  • pidgin >= 2.3.1-26.2
  • pidgin-devel >= 2.3.1-26.2

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