Pidgin Security Advisory
| Title | Smiley denial of service |
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| Date | 2010-02-18 |
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| CVE Name | CVE-2010-0423 |
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| Discovered By | Antti Hayrynen |
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| Summary | Pidgin can become unresponse when displaying large numbers of smileys |
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| Description | oCERT notified us about a problem in Pidgin, where a large amount of processing time will be used when inserting many smileys into an IM or chat window. This should not cause a crash, but Pidgin can become unusably slow. |
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| Fixed in Revision | a783b23a05da |
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| Fixed in Version | 2.6.6 |
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| Fix | A limit was added for the maximum number of smileys allowed in a conversation. |
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