Denial Of Service (DoS)

pidgin is vulnerable to denial of service. A denial of service flaw was found in the Pidgin OSCAR protocol implementation. If a remote ICQ user sent a web message to a local Pidgin user using this protocol, it would cause excessive memory usage, leading to a denial of service Pidgin crash...

CVE-2016-1000030

Pidgin version 2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutlsx509crtinit and gnutlsx509crtimport that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client...

finch, libpurple, pidgin security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1536 Updated pidgin packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pidgin is an instant messaging program...