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Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the Yahoo! protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2012-6152) Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the XMPP protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6477) It was discovered that Pidgin incorrecly handled long URLs. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6478) Jacob Appelbaum discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain HTTP responses. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6479) Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the Yahoo! protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6481) Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the MSN protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6482) Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled XMPP iq replies. A remote attacker could use this issue to spoof messages. (CVE-2013-6483) It was discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled STUN server responses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6484) Matt Jones discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain chunked HTTP responses. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-6485) Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain Gadu-Gadu HTTP messages. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-6487) Yves Younan and Pawel Janic discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled MXit emoticons. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-6489) Yves Younan discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled SIMPLE headers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE ... Description truncated, for more information please check the Reference URL

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