cve-2008-2957-00

Summary Remote UPnP discovery DoS
Date 2008-05-11
CVE Number CVE-2008-2957
Discovered By Andrew Hunt and Christian Grothoff
Fixed In Release 2.5.0

Description

The UPnP functionality in libpurple allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL.

Mitigation

UPnP related downloads are limited to 128kB.

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