Ubuntu Security Notice 1500-1 - Evgeny Boger discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled buddy list messages in the AIM and ICQ protocol handlers. 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 10.04 LTS, 11.04 and 11.10. Thijs Alkemade discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled malformed voice and video chat requests in the XMPP 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 10.04 LTS, 11.04 and 11.10. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2012-082 - Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in pidgin. A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests. Incoming messages with certain characters or character encodings can cause clients to crash. This update provides pidgin 2.10.4, which is not vulnerable to these issues.
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