SuSE 11.3 Security Update : finch (SAT Patch Number 9213)

The pidgin Instant Messenger has been updated to fix various security issues : - Remotely triggerable crash in IRC argument parsing. CVE-2014-0020 - Buffer overflow in SIMPLE header parsing. CVE-2013-6490 - Buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing. CVE-2013-6489 - Buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu HTT...

pidgin instant messenger DoS

Memory exhaustion on GIF icons parsing...

openSUSE Security Update : finch (finch-1088)

Several bugfixes were done for the Instant Messenger Pidgin : - Malformed responses to file transfers could cause a buffer overflow in pidgin CVE-2009-1373 and specially crafted packets could crash it CVE-2009-1375. - The fix against integer overflows in the msn protocol handling was incomplete...