5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.096 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.2%
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.
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>