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pidgin: denial of service

Package(s):pidgin CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1889
Created:July 2, 2009 Updated:December 7, 2009
Description: pidgin has a denial of service vulnerability. From the Red Hat alert: A denial of service flaw was found in the Pidgin OSCAR protocol implementation. If a remote ICQ user sent a web message to a local Pidgin user using this protocol, it would cause excessive memory usage, leading to a denial of service (Pidgin crash). (CVE-2009-1889)
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:321 2009-12-06
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:013 2009-08-11
Gentoo 200910-02 2009-10-22
Ubuntu USN-796-1 2009-07-06
Fedora FEDORA-2009-7359 2009-07-03
Fedora FEDORA-2009-7370 2009-07-03
Fedora FEDORA-2009-7415 2009-07-03
CentOS CESA-2009:1139 2009-07-02
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1139-01 2009-07-02
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