CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-2956.md

### [CVE-2008-2956](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2956)
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### Description

** DISPUTED ** 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."

### POC

#### Reference
- http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1

#### Github
- https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2008-2956
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds