Comment 0 for bug 383335

Pidgin in generic hardy has been update to fix three security vulnerabilities. The patches should be applied to tpidgin for the mini. Note that pidgin for the mini is in version 1:2.4.3ubuntu1~hardy1netbook5.

pidgin (1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.4) hardy-security; urgency=low

  * SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service or possible code execution in XMPP
    file transfer
    - debian/patches/81_security_CVE-2009-1373.patch: calculate lengths
      correctly in libpurple/protocols/jabber/si.c.
    - CVE-2009-1373
  * SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service in PurpleCircBuffer object expansion
    - debian/patches/82_security_CVE-2009-1375.patch: add an additional
      check in libpurple/circbuffer.c.
    - CVE-2009-1375
  * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via crafted MSN message
    - debian/patches/83_security_CVE-2009-1376.patch: switch offset
      variable to guint64 in libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c.
    - CVE-2009-1376
pidgin (1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.4) hardy-security; urgency=low

  * SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service or possible code execution in XMPP
    file transfer
    - debian/patches/81_security_CVE-2009-1373.patch: calculate lengths
      correctly in libpurple/protocols/jabber/si.c.
    - CVE-2009-1373
  * SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service in PurpleCircBuffer object expansion
    - debian/patches/82_security_CVE-2009-1375.patch: add an additional
      check in libpurple/circbuffer.c.
    - CVE-2009-1375
  * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via crafted MSN message
    - debian/patches/83_security_CVE-2009-1376.patch: switch offset
      variable to guint64 in libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c.
    - CVE-2009-1376

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Mon, 25 May 2009 17:24:40 +0200