{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2008-06-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pidgin: remote DoS via MSN message with crafted file name",
    "id" : "453736",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453736"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-12-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:1023",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.5.2-6.el4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-12-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:1023",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.5.2-6.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2955\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2955" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-2955",
  "csaw" : false
}