[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for pidgin

Jan Wagner uploaded a new package for pidgin which fixed the following
security problem:

CVE-2010-1624[1]

It was discovered that the msn_emoticon_msg function in slp.c in the MSN
protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers
to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a custom emoticon in a
malformed SLP message.

For the sid distribution the problem has been fixed in
version 2.7.0-1.

Upgrade instructions

If you don't use pinning (see [2]) you have to update pidgin
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install pidgin".

We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new versions
of installed backports will be installed automatically:

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 200

[1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-1624
[2] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions&gt;
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