Remote crashes being fixed in 2.6.2

Ethan Blanton elb at pidgin.im
Thu Sep 3 12:08:06 EDT 2009


Paul Aurich spake unto us the following wisdom:
> We believe none of these are remotely exploitable (all of them are, I  
> believe, null pointer dereferences). All but the IRC crash are fixed in 
> current MTN (patches for the MSN issues are linked to from those two 
> tickets).

The IRC crash is now fixed in mtn as well, and the diff is attached.
It should apply against 2.5.9.

Ethan

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