RedHat Update for pidgin RHSA-2014:0139-01

Check for the Version of pidgin OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for pidgin RHSA-2014:0139-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pidgin on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacke...

CVE-2011-3594

The gmarkupescapetext function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via invalid UTF-8 sequences that trigger use of invalid pointers and an out-of-bounds read, relate...