CVE-2009-3085

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.2 does not properly handle an error IQ stanza during an attempted fetch of a custom smiley, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via XHTML-IM content with cid: images.

Affected products

Pidgin Libpurple: all versions
Pidgin: through 2.6.1; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0 (+28)

References

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/fd5955618eddcd84d522b30ff11102f9601f38c8
http://secunia.com/advisories/36601
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=37
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36277
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11223
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6434
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/fd5955618eddcd84d522b30ff11102f9601f38c8
http://secunia.com/advisories/36601
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=37
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36277
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11223
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6434

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