Advisories MDVSA-2010:041: pidgin

[paul]

Multiple security vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed

in pidgin:

 

Certain malformed SLP messages can trigger a crash because the MSN

protocol plugin fails to check that all pieces of the message are

set correctly (CVE-2010-0277).

 

In a user in a multi-user chat room has a nickname containing '

'

then libpurple ends up having two users with username ' ' in the room,

and Finch crashes in this situation. We do not believe there is a

possibility of remote code execution (CVE-2010-0420).

 

oCERT notified us about a problem in Pidgin, where a large amount of

processing time will be used when inserting many smileys into an IM

or chat window. This should not cause a crash, but Pidgin can become

unusable slow (CVE-2010-0423).

 

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0

customers.

 

This update provides pidgin 2.6.6, which is not vulnerable to these

issues.