Description
The OSCAR protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.3 and Adium before 1.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted contact-list data for (1) ICQ and possibly (2) AIM, as demonstrated by the SIM IM client.
Published: 2009-10-20
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 8.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1932-1 New pidgin packages fix arbitrary code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-3596 The OSCAR protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.3 and Adium before 1.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted contact-list data for (1) ICQ and possibly (2) AIM, as demonstrated by the SIM IM client.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-886-1 Pidgin vulnerabilities
History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.07248}

epss

{'score': 0.07985}


Subscriptions

Adium Adium
Pidgin Pidgin
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:31:10.699Z

Reserved: 2009-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-3615

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-10-20T17:30:00.983

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-3615

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-10-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-3615 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses