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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: USN-781-1 Critical: Pidgin Malformed Message Crash

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Debian Security Bulletin DSA-4811-1 outlines vulnerabilities in pidgin impacting multiple versions, including a severe remote execution flaw.
It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain malformed messages when sending a file using the XMPP protocol handler

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