USN-796-1: Pidgin vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• pidgin -

Details

Yuriy Kaminskiy discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain
messages in the ICQ protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a
specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.04

• pidgin - 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3

Ubuntu 8.10

• pidgin - 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 8.04

• pidgin - 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Pidgin to effect
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-1889