{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:11",
        "name": "pidgin"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:12",
        "name": "pidgin"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:13",
        "name": "pidgin"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "pidgin"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via malformed XML documents. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor, who states: \"I was never able to identify a scenario under which a problem occurred and the original reporter wasn't able to supply any sort of reproduction details.\"",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956",
  "modified": "2026-04-28T19:53:24.473930083Z",
  "published": "2008-07-01T22:41:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2956"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2008-2956"
  ]
}