date: 2010-02-18T00:00:00.000Z
summary: Smiley denial of service
discoveredBy: Antti Hayrynen
oCERT notified us about a problem in Pidgin, where a large amount of processing
time will be used when inserting many smileys into an IM or chat window. This
should not cause a crash, but Pidgin can become unusably slow.
A limit was added for the maximum number of smileys allowed in a conversation.