Slackware-13.0 ChangeLog (2009-08-19)
Wed Aug 19 16:02:54 CDT 2009
Packages
Upgraded
- xap/pidgin-2.5.9-i486-1.txz
This update fixes a bug in Pidgin's MSN protocol implementation can allow
a remote attacker to send a malicious MSN message to a Pidgin user, which
will possibly cause arbitrary code to be executed as that user.
This issue was discovered by Federico Muttis of Core Security Technologies.
For more information, see:
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/libpurple-arbitrary-write
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2694
(* Security fix *)