USN-1014-1 -- pidgin vulnerabilitiesID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:700146 | Date: (C)2011-01-28 (M)2024-01-29 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Pierre Noguès discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled malformed SLP messages in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the return code of the Base64 decoding function. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service
Platform: |
Ubuntu 8.04 |
Ubuntu 10.10 |
Ubuntu 9.10 |
Ubuntu 10.04 |