VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-3085

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.69%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-09-08
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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