Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for pidgin. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks and compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for pidgin
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33614
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33614/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Spoofing, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for pidgin. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious
people to conduct spoofing attacks and compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA30881
SA30971
SA31390
SOLUTION:
Update to "net-im/pidgin-2.5.1" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GLSA-200901-13:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200901-13.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30881:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30881/
SA30971:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30971/
SA31390:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31390/
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