{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-01-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in SIMPLE protocol plugin",
    "id" : "1057498",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057498"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.3",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-190->CWE-122",
  "details" : [ "The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Pidgin project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Yves Younan (Sourcefire VRT) as the original reporter.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2014-02-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:0139",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.6.6-32.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2014-02-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:0139",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "pidgin-0:2.7.9-27.el6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pidgin",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6490\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6490\nhttp://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2013-6490",
  "csaw" : false
}