From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jul 01 2009 - 18:50:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Pidgin ICQ Web Message Denial of Service Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35652

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35652/

DESCRIPTION:
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 the application misinterpreting an ICQ
web message as an ICQ SMS message. This can be exploited to trigger
an out-of-memory condition and terminate the application via a
specially crafted ICQ web message.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.5.8.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Yuriy Kaminskiy

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9483
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/9bac0a540156fb1848eedd61c8630737dee752c7

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