CVE-2019-25544

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-807: Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46930
• https://pidgin.im/
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pidgin-denial-of-service-via-malformed-username

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