Ubuntu Security Notice USN-820-1
20th August, 2009
pidgin vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 9.04
- Ubuntu 8.10
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Software description
- pidgin
Details
Federico Muttis discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain
malformed messages in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could
send a specially crafted message and possibly execute arbitrary code with
user privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 9.04:
- pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.4
- Ubuntu 8.10:
- pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.4
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
- pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.6
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Pidgin to effect the
necessary changes.