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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2509-1 pidgin -- remote code execution

Date Reported:

08 Jul 2012

Affected Packages:

pidgin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3374.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar found a buffer overflow in Pidgin, a multi protocol instant messaging client. The vulnerability can be exploited by an incoming message in the MXit protocol plugin. A remote attacker may cause a crash, and in some circumstances can lead to remote code execution.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.3-1+squeeze3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.10.6-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.10.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.