CVE-2019-25544
Pidgin 2.13.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by providing an excessively long username string during account creation. Attackers can input a buffer of 1000 characters in the username field and trigger a crash when joining a chat, causing the application to become unavailable.
- Affected products
- Pidgin
- Pidgin
- = 2.13.0
- CVSS 4.0
- 6.9 MEDIUM
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.2 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 0.2% (9th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-807
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-03-21
CVE-2019-25544 at NVD
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