CVE-2009-1373

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-05-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) 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.

Affected products

Pidgin: through 2.5.5; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0 (+13)

References

http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1805
http://secunia.com/advisories/35188
http://secunia.com/advisories/35194
http://secunia.com/advisories/35202
http://secunia.com/advisories/35215
http://secunia.com/advisories/35294
http://secunia.com/advisories/35329
http://secunia.com/advisories/35330
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-07.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:140
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:173
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=29

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