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Marius Wachtler discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled malformed YMSG messages in the Yahoo! 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 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2011-1091) Marius Wachtler discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled HTTP 100 responses 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. (CVE-2011-3184) Diego Bauche Madero discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled UTF-8 sequences in the SILC protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3594)

pidgin on Ubuntu 11.04 , Ubuntu 10.10 , Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-November/001489.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25