USN-820-1: Pidgin vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• pidgin -

Details

Federico Muttis discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain
malformed messages in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could
send a specially crafted message and possibly execute arbitrary code with
user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.04

• pidgin - 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.4

Ubuntu 8.10

• pidgin - 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 8.04

• pidgin - 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.6

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Pidgin to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-2694