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pidgin: information disclosure

Package(s):pidgin CVE #(s):CVE-2011-4922
Created:July 10, 2012 Updated:July 11, 2012
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Julia Lawall discovered that Pidgin incorrectly cleared memory contents used in cryptographic operations. An attacker could exploit this to read the memory contents, leading to an information disclosure. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1500-1 2012-07-09

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