title: Red Hat Security Advisory: pidgin security update
description: pidgin: DoS when decoding non-UTF-8 strings in Yahoo protocol plugin pidgin: DoS when handling timestamps in the XMPP plugin pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs pidgin: DoS when parsing certain HTTP response headers pidgin: DoS caused due to OOB read in Yahoo protocol plugin pidgin: DoS via multiple null pointer dereferences in MSN protocol plugin pidgin: Possible spoofing using iq replies in XMPP protocol plugin pidgin: DoS via specially-crafted stun messages pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow when parsing chunked HTTP responses pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu protocol plugin pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in SIMPLE protocol plugin pidgin: DoS in IRC protocol plugin due to arguement parsing
cpes: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5::client cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::client cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::server cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation