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Ubuntu: Pidgin vulnerabilities

LinuxSecurity.com: Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that Pidgin incorrectly validated all fields of an incoming message in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0277)

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libpurple

libpurple(3)							C Library Functions						      libpurple(3)

NAME

       libpurple - core IM library

DESCRIPTION

       libpurple is a core library to be used by IM programs. It is used by pidgin(1).

       libpurple  library  could connect to the IM networks, manage accounts and preferences, and other helpful things.  When using libpurple, you
       will basically be writing a UI for this core code.  pidgin is a GTK+ frontend to libpurple.

FILES

       The following files are used:

       /usr/lib/libpurple.so   Core IM library of Pidgin

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-im-client	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       pidgin(1), libpurple-client(3), attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)

       libpurple information:

	   http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple

NOTES

       Written by Rick Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    28 Jul 2008 						      libpurple(3)