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CVE-2009-2694

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2694 is a critical remote code execution and denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Pidgin (before 2.5.9) and Adium (1.3.5 and earlier), stemming from memory corruption due to crafted SLP messages. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it presents a severe risk as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog or actively exploited, public exploit code exists (EDB-9615), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-9615 · Sep 9, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2029 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: pidgin-0:1.5.1-4.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.5.9-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.5.9-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2694Critical

pidgin: insufficient input validation in msn_slplink_process_msg()

Aug 18, 2009

References

developer.pidgin.im / viewmtn/revision/info/6f7343166c673bf0496ecb1afec9b633c1d54a0e
Patch
developer.pidgin.im / wiki/ChangeLog
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/36384
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/36392
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/36401
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/36402
secunia.com / advisories/36708
secunia.com / advisories/37071
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10319
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6320
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1218.html
Vendor Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
coresecurity.com / content/libpurple-arbitrary-write
Exploit
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1870
Patch
exploit-db.com / exploits/9615
pidgin.im / news/security
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2303
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2663