intrigeri uploaded new packages for pidgin which fixed the following security
problems:
CVE-2013-6477
Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that a remote XMPP user can trigger a crash by
sending a message with a timestamp in the distant future.
CVE-2013-6478
Pidgin could be crashed through overly wide tooltip windows.
CVE-2013-6479
Jacob Appelbaum discovered that a malicious server or a "man in the middle"
could send a malformed HTTP header resulting in denial of service.
CVE-2013-6481
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin could be crashed through malformed
Yahoo! P2P messages.
CVE-2013-6482
Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin could be
crashed through malformed MSN messages.
CVE-2013-6483
Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin could be
crashed through malformed XMPP messages.
CVE-2013-6484
It was discovered that incorrect error handling when reading the response from
a STUN server could result in a crash.
CVE-2013-6485
Matt Jones discovered a buffer overflow in the parsing of malformed
HTTP responses.
CVE-2013-6487
Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney discovered a buffer overflow when parsing
Gadu-Gadu messages.
CVE-2013-6489
Yves Younan and Pawel Janic discovered an integer overflow when parsing
MXit emoticons.
CVE-2013-6490
Yves Younan discovered a buffer overflow when parsing SIMPLE headers.
CVE-2014-0020
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin could be crashed via malformed
IRC arguments.
For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version
2.10.9-1~bpo60+1.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), no direct backport is provided.
One should use the fixed package from squeeze-backports instead.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version
2.10.9-1~deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version
2.10.9-1.