A Denial-of-Service flaw was found in the way the IRC protocol plugin of pidgin handled IRC arguments. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger a crash in libpurple by sending a message with fewer than expected arguments. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Daniel Atallah as the original reporter of this issue.
Created attachment 855934 [details] Local copy of patch
External Reference: http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=85
Created pidgin tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1059049]
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0139 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
pidgin-2.10.9-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
pidgin-2.10.9-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.