Jan Wagner uploaded a new package for pidgin which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2010-0277[2] and Debian Bug #566775[3] It was discovered that that slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.4 and Adium 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, a different issue than CVE-2010-0013. CVE-2010-0420[4] Fixes a remote Finch XMPP crash. CVE-2010-0423[5] Fixes a remote smiley freeze/CPU pegging DoS. For the sid distribution the problem has been fixed in version 2.6.6-1. Upgrade instructions --------------------- If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update pidgin manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install pidgin". 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 [1] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions> [2] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0277 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566775 [4] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0420 [5] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0423
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