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.
Published: 2010-02-24
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 3.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2038-1 New pidgin packages fix denial of service
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2038-2 New pidgin packages fix regression
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2038-3 New pidgin packages fix regression
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-0451 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-902-1 Pidgin vulnerabilities
References
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http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=44 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38563 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38640 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38658 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38712 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39509 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2038 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:041 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/62439 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38294 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-902-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0413 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0914 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565786 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56399 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0420 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11485 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18230 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0115.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0420 cve-icon
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:45:12.272Z

Reserved: 2010-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-0420

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-02-24T18:30:00.420

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-0420

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-02-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-0420 - Bugzilla

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