www: 3a63d515: Add an entry regarding the CVE in 2.5.8.

kstange at pidgin.im kstange at pidgin.im
Thu Jul 2 00:40:22 EDT 2009


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Revision: 3a63d5151e3a7885f1f684170fddcb2a923fbd6b
Ancestor: b9fe671f1bff96fa9bd3d177496f7402bcf3086d
Author: kstange at pidgin.im
Date: 2009-07-02T04:32:58
Branch: im.pidgin.www
URL: http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/3a63d5151e3a7885f1f684170fddcb2a923fbd6b

Modified files:
        htdocs/news/security/index.php

ChangeLog: 

Add an entry regarding the CVE in 2.5.8.

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--- htdocs/news/security/index.php	86047489f21c485554dceb2221cf56068c7fa6cf
+++ htdocs/news/security/index.php	b7083262c872538879aa793ef26998f980ba8362
@@ -347,6 +347,16 @@ $vulnerabilities = array(
 		"fix"          => "The proper variable type is now used when doing size comparison. Additionally, the malformed message is now properly discarded.",
 		"fixedversion" => "2.5.6",
 		"discoveredby" => "Loc VALBON (via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative)"
+	);
+	array(
+		"title"        => "ICQ parser excessive memory allocation",
+		"date"         => "28 May 2009",
+		"cve"          => "CVE-2009-1889",
+		"summary"      => "Misparsed web messages can result in excessive memory allocation",
+		"description"  => "The ICQ prpl would misparse an incoming ICQ Web Message as an SMS message in certain circumstances, leading to an excessively large allocation.",
+		"fix"          => "Yuriy's patch corrected the misparsing of such ICQ web messages so they are no longer treated as SMS messages and adds validation to avoid unnecessary memory allocations.",
+		"fixedversion" => "2.5.8",
+		"discoveredby" => "Yuriy Kaminskiy"
 	)
 );
 /*	Template for the unfortunate future


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