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CVE-2019-25544

pidgin · pidgin

Published
CVSS6.2
Severitymedium
WeaknessCWE-807
ExploitedNot in CISA KEV

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Pidgin 2.13.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by providing an excessively long username string during account creation. Attackers can input a buffer of 1000 characters in the username field and trigger a crash when joining a chat, causing the application to become unavailable.

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