Users of pidgin please be advised of a Denial-of-Service vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
MDVSA-2010:208: [MDVSA-2010:208] pidgin Denial-of-Service
Problem Description:
A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in pidgin:
It has been discovered that eight denial of service conditions exist
in libpurple all due to insufficient validation of the return value
from purple_base64_decode(). Invalid or malformed data received in
place of a valid base64-encoded value in portions of the Yahoo!, MSN,
MySpaceIM, and XMPP protocol plugins and the NTLM authentication
support trigger a crash. These vulnerabilities can be leveraged by
a remote user for denial of service (CVE-2010-3711).Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/dtu1
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