cve-2009-3025-00

Summary Yahoo IM parsing crash
Date 2009-08-22
CVE Number CVE-2009-3025
Discovered By adk
Fixed In Release 2.6.1

Description

Possibly depending on the architecture and/or flags used to compile libpurple, the Yahoo protocol plugin may crash when receiving an IM from any user which contains a URL. The only vulnerable version of libpurple is 2.6.0.

Mitigation

Correctly parse URLs in incoming Yahoo messages.

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