Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for pidgin which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2008-2957, Debian Bug #488632 The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL. For the etch-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-4~bpo40+1 For the lenny and sid distributions the problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-4. Upgrade instructions -------------------- If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the packages manually via "apt-get -t etch-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=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 200
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