Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1373: Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities
7
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
05/26/2009
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
02/14/2023
Description
Buffer overflow in the XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an outbound XMPP file transfer. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-im-pidgin
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