CVE-2009-1373

HIGH 7.1CVE-2009-1373 · Published 26/05/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-1373 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability affecting pidgin (pidgin).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.3%, higher than 91.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pidgin pidgin	`= 2.0.0= 2.0.1= 2.0.2= 2.1.0= 2.1.1= 2.2.0= 2.2.1= 2.2.2= 2.3.0= 2.3.1= 2.4.0= 2.4.1= 2.4.2= 2.4.3= 2.5.0= 2.5.1= 2.5.2= 2.5.3= 2.5.4≤ 2.5.5`	No fix yet

Description

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.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

pidgin

= 2.0.0= 2.0.1= 2.0.2= 2.1.0= 2.1.1= 2.2.0= 2.2.1= 2.2.2= 2.3.0= 2.3.1= 2.4.0= 2.4.1= 2.4.2= 2.4.3= 2.5.0= 2.5.1= 2.5.2= 2.5.3= 2.5.4≤ 2.5.5

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