Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-1854-01 - Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: pidgin. Security Fix: A denial of service flaw was found in the way Pidgin's Mxit plug-in handled emoticons. A malicious remote server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a specially crafted emoticon.
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