This host has Pidgin installed and is prone to Denial Of Service vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.6.6 or later. For updates refer to http://www.pidgin.im/download/

This issue is due to an error in 'slp.c' within the 'MSN protocol plugin' in 'libpurple' when processing MSN request.

Pidgin version prior to 2.6.4 on Linux.

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-0277
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/2

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Updated on 2015-03-25