Gentoo: GLSA 200910-02 High: Pidgin Remote Execution Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200910-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: October 22, 2009 Bugs: #276000, #281545, #283324 ID: 200910-02

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code, unauthorized information disclosure, or Denial of Service.
Background ========= Pidgin is a client for a variety of instant messaging protocols.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-im/pidgin < 2.5.9-r1 >= 2.5.9-r1
========== Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Pidgin:
* Yuriy Kaminskiy reported that the OSCAR protocol i...