Joseph Bisch discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain xml messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
{ "availability": "No subscription required", "binaries": [ { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "finch" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "finch-dbgsym" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "finch-dev" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "libpurple-bin" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "libpurple-dev" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "libpurple0" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "libpurple0-dbgsym" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "pidgin" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "pidgin-data" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "pidgin-dbg" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "pidgin-dbgsym" }, { "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4", "binary_name": "pidgin-dev" } ] }