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CVE-2009-3615

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-3615 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the OSCAR protocol plugin of libpurple, affecting Pidgin before version 2.6.3 and Adium before 1.3.7. A remote attacker can crash the application by sending specially crafted contact-list data, primarily impacting ICQ and potentially AIM users. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0266 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: pidgin-0:1.5.1-6.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.6.3-2.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.6.3-2.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-3615Moderate

Pidgin: Invalid pointer dereference (crash) after receiving contacts from SIM IM client

Oct 10, 2009

References

developer.pidgin.im / ticket/10481
developer.pidgin.im / viewmtn/revision/info/781682333aea0c801d280c3507ee25552a60bfc0
developer.pidgin.im / wiki/ChangeLog
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/37017
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37072
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/53807
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18388
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9414
mandriva.com / security/advisories
pidgin.im / news/security
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/36719
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2949
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2951
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1020