Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3620 pidgin - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Yves Younan of Cisco Talos discovered several vulnerabilities in theMXit protocol support in pidgin, a multi-protocol instant messagingclient. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause adenial of service (application crash), overwrite files, informationdisclosure, or potentially to execute arbitrary code.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620