{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2010-02-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pidgin: Finch XMPP MUC Crash",
    "id" : "565786",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565786"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.3",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "libpurple in Finch in Pidgin before 2.6.6, when an XMPP multi-user chat (MUC) room is used, does not properly parse nicknames containing <br> sequences, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted nickname." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Sadrul Habib Chowdhury (Pidgin project) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2010-02-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0115",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.6.6-1.el4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2010-02-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0115",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.6.6-1.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0420\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0420" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-0420",
  "csaw" : false
}