pidgin — security advisory

{
  "id": "8c9a05e8acc55144d75f32298420d59377598e30578ab44813e7571c0688f137",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956",
    "summary": "Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via malformed XML documents. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor, who states: \"I was never able to identify a scenario under which a problem occurred and the original reporter wasn't able to supply any sort of reproduction details.\"",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "pidgin",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.14.12-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "2.14.12-1.1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "2.14.12-1.1~exp1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "2.14.13-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "2.14.13-2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "2.14.14-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "pidgin",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.14.14-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "pidgin",
          "evidence": "/affected/2/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.14.14-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/2/versions"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956",
      "aliases": [
        "DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "pidgin",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/pidgin?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.14.12-1",
            "2.14.12-1.1",
            "2.14.12-1.1~exp1",
            "2.14.13-1",
            "2.14.13-2",
            "2.14.14-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "unimportant"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "pidgin",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/pidgin?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.14.14-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "unimportant"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "pidgin",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/pidgin?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.14.14-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "unimportant"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:48.620281021Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2008-2956"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2956"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2008-2956",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 419059,
  "published_at": "2008-07-01T22:41:00+00:00"
}