CVE-2009-1373: Pidgin

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.5.5; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; …

Published 2009-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.