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
USN-1014-1: [USN-1014-1] Pidgin vulnerabilities
Details follow:
Pierre Noguès discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled malformed SLP
messages in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a
specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS.
(CVE-2010-1624)
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the return code
of the Base64 decoding function. A remote attacker could send a specially
crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3711)Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/etdf
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