Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for pidgin which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2009-3615 The OSCAR protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.3 and Adium before 1.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted contact-list data for (1) ICQ and possibly (2) AIM, as demonstrated by the SIM IM client. For the lenny-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in version 2.6.3-1~bpo50+1. For the squeeze and sid distributions the problem has been fixed in version 2.6.3-1. Upgrade instructions -------------------- If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the packages manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update. [1] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions> We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new versions of installed backports will be installed automatically: Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 200
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