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SUSE libgnt pidgin Moderate Denial of Service Security Issue 2026-2967-1

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2026
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Update addresses denial of service issue affecting libgnt and pidgin on SUSE systems, enhancing overall stability.
A security update for libgnt, meson, and pidgin addresses a denial of service vulnerability, introduces several feature enhancements, and provides multiple bug fixes and security m...

Summary

## This update for libgnt, meson, pidgin fixes the following issues Security issue: * CVE-2019-25544: denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by providing an excessively long username string during account creation (bsc#1260058). Non security issues: Changes for meson: * Update to version 0.46.0. * Require python2-devel for the testsuite (bsc#1125736) * Update to version 0.45.0: * Config-Tool based dependencies can be specified in a cross file. * Visual Studio C# compiler support. * Removed two deprecated features: * Generator outputs can preserve directory structure. * Hexadecimal string literals. * install_data()`defaults to``.}/{projectname * install_subdir() supports strip_directory. * Integer options. * New method meson.project_license().

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security advisory moderate denial of service SuSE pidgin libgnt

References

* bsc#1057701

* bsc#1062785

* bsc#1068818

* bsc#1125736

* bsc#1184786

* bsc#1191780

* bsc#1260058

* jsc#SLE-21105

Cross-

* CVE-2019-25544

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2019-25544 ( SUSE ): 6.9

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

* CVE-2019-25544 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2019-25544 ( NVD ): 6.9

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

* CVE-2019-25544 ( NVD ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2967-1
Release Date: 2026-07-14T11:11:18Z
Rating: moderate

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