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pidgin — security advisory
The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL.
- Products
- pidgin
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.4.3-4
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-2957
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2957
pidgin
Fixed versions: 2.4.3-4
pidgin
Fixed versions: 2.4.3-4
pidgin
Fixed versions: 2.4.3-4
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:48.571428127Z",
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