CVE-2009-1375

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% 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

The PurpleCircBuffer implementation in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 does not properly maintain a certain buffer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via vectors involving the (1) XMPP or (2) Sametime protocol.

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://osvdb.org/54649
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://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-07.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:173
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=31
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1060.html

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