Lots of crashes (exploitable?) reported in Fedora

Vincent Danen vdanen at redhat.com
Fri Apr 13 13:31:50 EDT 2012


Hi folks.  I'm not sure whether this should be considered
security-sensitive or not, but we've had a number of crashes reported on
pidgin in Fedora:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720781

The bug is public as these were all sent by abrt collecting info on
Pidgin crashes and they seem to be all over the place.  I have not much
experience with Pidgin or trying to determine whether or not these might
be considered security flaws, but could you take a look at the bug and
see if might be?

Again, the bug is public but I wanted to give you a heads-up.  I don't
believe these are more than crashes, but at least one user in the bug
seems to think these should be security-relevant.

Thanks.

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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team 


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