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SUSE update for pidgin


Secunia ID

SA50023

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-1178

Release Date

24 Jul 2012

Criticality

Not Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

SUSE has issued an update for pidgin. This fixes a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information see vulnerability #2 in:
SA48303

Solution

Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.

Original Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2012:0905-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00041.html