The OSCAR protocol implementation in Pidgin before 2.5.8 misinterprets the ICQWebMessage message type as the ICQSMS message type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ICQ web message that triggers allocation of a large amount of memory.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2009-07-01T12:26:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.743Z
Reserved: 2009-06-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-1889
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    No data.
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-07-01T13:00:01.390
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2009-1889
 Redhat
                        Redhat