{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2007-05-11T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pidgin: unrestricted download of arbitrary files triggered via UPnP",
    "id" : "453740",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453740"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "1.8",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL." ],
  "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-2008-2957\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2957" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-2957",
  "csaw" : false
}