Pardus alert 2011-59 (pidgin)

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Meltem Parmaksız <meltem@pardus.org.tr> 
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pardus-security@pardus.org.tr 
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[Pardus-security]  [PLSA 2011-59] Pidgin: Denial of Service 
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Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:58:46 +0200
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<201103221258.46467.meltem@pardus.org.tr>

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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-59            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-03-22
  Severity: 3
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in pidgin, which  can  be  exploited  by 
attackers to cause a denial of service. 


Description
===========

CVE-2011-1091: 

The Yahoo protocol plugin in libpurple versions 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 do 
not properly handle malformed YMSG packets,  leading  to  NULL  pointer 
dereferences and application crash. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    pidgin, all before 2.7.11-47-21


Resolution
==========

There are update(s) for pidgin. You can update them via Package Manager 
or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up pidgin

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=17403
  * http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=51

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