Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:23921Denial Of Service (DoS)
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
pidgin is vulnerable to denial of service. A denial of service flaw was found in Finchβs XMPP chat implementation, when using multi-user chat. If a Finch user in a multi-user chat session were to change their nickname to contain the HTML βbrβ element, it would cause Finch to crash.
References
developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
pidgin.im/news/security/?id=44
secunia.com/advisories/38563
secunia.com/advisories/38640
secunia.com/advisories/38658
secunia.com/advisories/38712
secunia.com/advisories/38915
secunia.com/advisories/39509
www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2038
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:041
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085
www.osvdb.org/62439
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
www.securityfocus.com/bid/38294
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-902-1
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0413
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0914
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0115
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565786
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56399
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11485
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18230
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0115.html
Related
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P