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USN-796-1: Pidgin vulnerability

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http://www.ubuntu.com – A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases Details follow: Yuriy Kaminskiy discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain messages in the ICQ protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash. (Distributions)

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