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CVE-2010-1624: Input Validation

First published: Fri May 07 2010(Updated: )

Pierre Noguès found a NULL pointer dereference in the Pidgin MSN SLP protocol implementation, by processing custom emoticon messages. A remote, authenticated user could use this deficiency to cause a denial of service (Pidgin crash). Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Pierre Noguès of Meta Security as the original reporter.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Pidgin Pidgin<2.7.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=10.10
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=9.10
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=8.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=10.04
redhat/pidgin<0:2.6.6-5.el4_8
0:2.6.6-5.el4_8
redhat/pidgin<0:2.6.6-5.el5_5
0:2.6.6-5.el5_5

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