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CVE-2008-2956

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2956 describes a disputed memory leak vulnerability in Pidgin 2.0.0, and potentially other versions, that could lead to a denial of service through memory consumption. The vulnerability, if exploitable, could be triggered remotely by unauthenticated attackers sending malformed XML documents. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), its primary impact would be system availability. The vendor disputes the existence of this issue, and there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-2956Low

pidgin: memory leak in XML parser

May 11, 2007

References

crisp.cs.du.edu
secunia.com / advisories/31387
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-2647
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3
securityfocus.com / archive/1/495165/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/29985