Unspecified vulnerability in Pidgin 2.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a link in a Yahoo IM.

Description

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

References

• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6167 vdb-entry signature
• pidgin-unspecified-dos(52994) vdb-entry
• [oss-security] 20090819 CVE Request pidgin mailing-list
• http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog