USN-1746-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
02/16/2013
07/25/2018
05/06/2013
07/09/2020
Description
Buffer overflow in http.c in the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.7 allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP header.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libpurple0
- ubuntu-upgrade-pidgin
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