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Ubuntu 8.04-9.10 Advisory: Critical Pidgin Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2010
Scroller Ubuntu
Uncover the weaknesses within Pidgin present in multiple Ubuntu releases, which may lead to significant denial of service threats.
Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that Pidgin incorrectly validated all fields of an incoming message in the MSN protocol handler

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security advisory remote exploit critical Ubuntu Denial of Service Pidgin MSN Protocol

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security advisory remote exploit critical Ubuntu Denial of Service Pidgin MSN Protocol

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