{
  "threat_severity" : "Critical",
  "public_date" : "2009-08-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pidgin: insufficient input validation in msn_slplink_process_msg()",
    "id" : "514957",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514957"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "7.5",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-228->CWE-119",
  "details" : [ "The msn_slplink_process_msg function in libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c in libpurple, as used in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.9 and Adium 1.3.5 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by sending multiple crafted SLP (aka MSNSLP) messages to trigger an overwrite of an arbitrary memory location.  NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1376." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2009-08-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1218",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:1.5.1-4.el3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-08-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1218",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.5.9-1.el4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-08-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1218",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.5.9-1.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2694\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2694" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-2694",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Users can lower the impact of this flaw by making sure their privacy settings only allow Pidgin to accept messages from the users on their buddy list.  This will prevent exploitation of this flaw by other random MSN users.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}