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Pidgin ICQ Message Denial of Service Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA37072
Release Date: 2009-10-16
Last Update: 2009-10-19
Popularity: 1,062 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Pidgin 2.x

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Description:
A weakness has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

An error in the oscar protocol plugin can be exploited to cause a crash e.g. via a specially crafted ICQ message.

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