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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2009-07-01T12:26:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.743Z

Reserved: 2009-06-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1889

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-07-01T13:00:01.390

Modified: 2017-09-29T01:34:38.153

Link: CVE-2009-1889

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-05-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1889 - Bugzilla