CVE-2019-25544

A flaw was found in Pidgin. Local attackers can exploit this denial of service vulnerability by providing an excessively long username string during account creation. This can cause the application to crash when joining a chat, leading to the application becoming unavailable.

This Moderate impact denial of service flaw in Pidgin allows a local attacker to crash the application. By providing an excessively long username string during account creation, the application becomes unavailable when attempting to join a chat.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Red Hat is not aware of a practical temporary workaround that fully or partially mitigates this issue or meets Red Hat Product Security's standards for usability, deployment, applicability, or stability.