PT-2010-2192 · Pidgin+1 · Pidgin+1

Sadrul Habib Chowdhury · Published 2010-02-18 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2010-0420

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.6.6

Description The issue is related to the parsing of nicknames in XMPP multi-user chat rooms. When a nickname contains a specific sequence, it can cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This is due to the improper parsing of nicknames containing <br> sequences.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.6.6, update to version 2.6.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of nicknames containing <br> sequences in XMPP multi-user chat rooms to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-0420

DSA-2038-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

RHSA-2010:0115

RHSA-2010_0115

Affected Products

Pidgin

Red Hat

References · 35

• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=44 · Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0115.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38563 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:041 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0420 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-0420 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0420 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38658 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38712 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0420 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-902-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0413 · Vendor Advisory