CVE-2010-0420 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=44 http://secunia.com/advisories/38563 http://secunia.com/advisories/38640 http://secunia.com/advisories/38658 http://secunia.com/advisories/38712 http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 http://secunia.com/advisories/39509 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2038 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:041 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085 http://www.osvdb.org/62439 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38294 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-902-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0413 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0914 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565786 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56399 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11485 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A18230 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0115.html