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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: USN-820-1 Critical: Pidgin Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-820-1 August 20
Federico Muttis discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain malformed messages in the MSN protocol handler

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