CVE-2019-25544

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin version 2.13.0

Description A denial of service issue allows local attackers to crash the application by providing an excessively long username string during account creation. By inputting a buffer of 1000 characters in the username field, an attacker can trigger a crash when joining a chat, rendering the application unavailable.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.