CVE-2008-2955: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: version 2.4.1 only

Published 2008-07-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.