DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3085

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3085 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0

8.699999809265137

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:12	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	pidgin	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Sep 8, 2009 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3085 advisory

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