Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities
On February 25, in a security notice Canonical published details about Pidgin vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues have been fixed in Pidgin.
For example, it was discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled file transfers in the MXit protocol handler.
Pidgin: Arbitrary code execution
pidgin-otr: Arbitrary code execution
I recently installed Pidgin and tried to install pidgin-facebookchat. Ubuntu software center now says that pidgin is corrupt so I press repair but nothing gets fixed.
I've tried sudo apt-get purge pidgin but I get this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...
Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities
pidgin privacy please is a pidgin plugin to stop spammers from annoying you. You can block messages from certain users, block messages from people who are not on your contact list and suppress repeated authorization requests.
Pidgin is a nice chatting client that is pre-installed in a lot of Linux distributions. Pidgin supports many chat platforms like yahoo, facebook, irc, AIM ... but unfortunately, the popular social network Twitter is not on this list.
However, with the help of a plugin called pidgin-microblog, you can update and check twitter and some other social networks like Identi.ca, Status.net ..
Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2010-0277, CVE-2010-0420, CVE-2010-0423
Description:
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-902-1 February 22, 2010
pidgin vulnerabilities
CVE-2010-0277, CVE-2010-0420, CVE-2010-0423
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