U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-1373 Detail

Description

Buffer overflow in the XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an outbound XMPP file transfer. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to [email protected].

URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1805 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35188 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35194 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35202 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35215 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35294 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35329 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35330 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-07.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:140 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:173 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=29 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1059.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1060.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35067 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-781-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-781-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1396 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500488 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50682 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17722 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9005 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00033.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00051.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00075.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-1373
NVD Published Date:
05/26/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.