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- Author: voroskoi
- Vulnerable: 2.2.1-1
- Unaffected: 2.2.1-2sayshell1
A weakness has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The weakness is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error when processing messages with invalid HTML code and can be exploited to cause libpurple to crash. Successful exploitation may require that HTML logging is used.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2539