Summary
This host has Pidgin installed and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Impact
Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code, corrupt memory and cause the application to crash.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.5.9
http://pidgin.im/download
Insight
An error in the 'msn_slplink_process_msg()' function while processing malformed MSN SLP packets which can be exploited to overwrite of an arbitrary memory location.
Affected
Pidgin version prior to 2.5.9 on Windows.
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2694 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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