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pidgin: denial of service

Package(s):pidgin CVE #(s):CVE-2007-4996
Created:October 3, 2007 Updated:November 2, 2007
Description: Pidgin can be forced to crash by an MSN user sending "nudge" messages.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2368 2007-10-03
Slackware SSA:2007-275-01 2007-10-03
Foresight FLEA-2007-0057-1 2007-10-02
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pidgin: denial of service

Posted Oct 10, 2007 18:44 UTC (Wed) by kreutzm (guest, #4700) [Link]

Debian Sarge and Etch are not vulnerable.

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