Secunia reports:
Some vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS or to potentially compromise a user's system.
A truncation error in the processing of MSN SLP messages can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
A boundary error in the XMPP SOCKS5 "bytestream" server when initiating an outgoing file transfer can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
A boundary error exists in the implementation of the "PurpleCircBuffer" structure. This can be exploited to corrupt memory and cause a crash via specially crafted XMPP or Sametime packets.
A boundary error in the "decrypt_out()" function can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow with 8 bytes and crash the application via a specially crafted QQ packet.
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