{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2017-03-10T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pidgin: Out-of-bounds write in purple_markup_unescape_entity triggered by invalid XML",
    "id" : "1430019",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1430019"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-787",
  "details" : [ "An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin before 2.12.0 processed XML content. A malicious remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of the pidgin process.", "An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin processed XML content. A malicious remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of the pidgin process." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-08-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:1854",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.10.11-5.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "pidgin",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "pidgin",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2640\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2640" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2017-2640",
  "csaw" : false
}