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pidgin: "crash" from crafted URL

Package(s):pidgin CVE #(s):
Created:August 24, 2009 Updated:August 26, 2009
Description:

From the Fedora advisory:

2.6.1 fixes an issue where pidgin can crash if you are sent a certain type of URL over Yahoo.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8874 2009-08-22
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8826 2009-08-22
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