CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-2955.md

### [CVE-2008-2955](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2955)
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### Description

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3966

#### Github
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