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pidgin: denial of service

Package(s):pidgin CVE #(s):CVE-2007-4999
Created:November 2, 2007 Updated:November 29, 2007
Description: libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-548-1 2007-11-28
Foresight FLEA-2007-0067-1 2007-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2714 2007-11-01
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