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Ubuntu 8.04-9.04: USN-796-1 Critical: Pidgin Remote Crash via ICQ

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A distant intruder might leverage a Pidgin vulnerability in Ubuntu, triggering disruptions through specially designed ICQ messages. It's advisable to update.
Yuriy Kaminskiy discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain messages in the ICQ protocol handler

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