Gentoo: GLSA-200905-07 Normal: Pidgin DoS and Remote Code Risk
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May 25, 2009
Multiple vulnerabilities in Pidgin might allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200905-07
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: May 25, 2009
Bugs: #270811
ID: 200905-07
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Pidgin might allow for the remote execution
of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
Background
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Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is an instant messaging client for a variety of
instant messaging protocols.
Affected packages
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1 net-im/pidgin < 2.5.6 >= 2.5.6
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin:
* Veracode reported a boundary error in the "XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream
server" wh...
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