Synopsis: Moderate: pidgin security update Issue date: 2010-11-16 CVE Names: CVE-2010-3711 Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way Pidgin handled Base64 decoding. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin if the target Pidgin user was using the Yahoo! Messenger Protocol, MSN, MySpace, or Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) protocol plug-ins, or using the Microsoft NT LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol for authentication. (CVE-2010-3711) Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. SL 6.x SRPMS: pidgin-2.6.6-6.el6_0.src.rpm i386: finch-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm finch-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm libpurple-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm libpurple-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm libpurple-perl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm pidgin-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm pidgin-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm pidgin-docs-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm pidgin-perl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm x86_64: finch-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm finch-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm finch-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm finch-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm libpurple-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm libpurple-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm libpurple-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm libpurple-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm libpurple-perl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm pidgin-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm pidgin-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm pidgin-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm pidgin-docs-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm pidgin-perl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson