UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-25544
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544
Upstream
  • CVE-2019-25544
Published
2026-03-21T13:16:00Z
Modified
2026-05-20T16:03:51.547087590Z
Severity
  • 6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Pidgin 2.13.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by providing an excessively long username string during account creation. Attackers can input a buffer of 1000 characters in the username field and trigger a crash when joining a chat, causing the application to become unavailable.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
pidgin

Package

Name
pidgin
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1
1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.2
1:2.10.9-0ubuntu1
1:2.10.9-0ubuntu2
1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3
1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.1
1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2
1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3
1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json"
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
pidgin

Package

Name
pidgin
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.10.11-0ubuntu4
1:2.10.11-0ubuntu5
1:2.10.12-0ubuntu1
1:2.10.12-0ubuntu2
1:2.10.12-0ubuntu3
1:2.10.12-0ubuntu4
1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5
1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.1
1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json"
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
pidgin

Package

Name
pidgin
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.12.0-1ubuntu2
1:2.12.0-1ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.12.0-1ubuntu4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.12.0-1ubuntu4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0",
            "binary_version": "1:2.12.0-1ubuntu4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.12.0-1ubuntu4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.12.0-1ubuntu4"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json"
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
pidgin

Package

Name
pidgin
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu1
1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu2
1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu3
1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0",
            "binary_version": "1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.13.0-2.2ubuntu4"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json"
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
pidgin

Package

Name
pidgin
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.14.1-1ubuntu1
1:2.14.8-1ubuntu1
1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2
1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json"
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
pidgin

Package

Name
pidgin
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.14.12-1ubuntu1
1:2.14.12-1ubuntu2
1:2.14.13-1ubuntu1
1:2.14.13-1ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.13-1ubuntu2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.13-1ubuntu2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0t64",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.13-1ubuntu2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.13-1ubuntu2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.13-1ubuntu2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json"
Ubuntu:25.10
pidgin

Package

Name
pidgin
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin?arch=source&distro=questing

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.14.14-1ubuntu1
1:2.14.14-1ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0t64",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json"
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
pidgin

Package

Name
pidgin
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin?arch=source&distro=resolute

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.14.14-1ubuntu2
1:2.14.14-1ubuntu3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0t64",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.14.14-1ubuntu3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25544.json"