Vulnerabilities in Yahoo protocol plugin

[John Bailey]

On 03/05/2011 02:03 PM, John Bailey wrote:
> Hello, packagers,
> 
> Marius Wachtler discovered three remote crash bugs in our Yahoo protocol
> handler.  All three of these are due to improper handling of malformed YMSG
> packets that are missing fields we expect to be present, causing NULL pointer
> dereferences.

I should have mentioned, these bugs have been present since libpurple 2.6.0.

John

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