MXit security flaws

Mark Doliner mark at kingant.net
Sat Feb 2 15:51:22 EST 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Andrew Victor <Andrew.Victor at mxit.com> wrote:
>> > This fix <http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/f7b7a6c58ad3> should also
>> > be applied to 2.10.7.  Without it Pidgin occasionally crashes or freezes
>> > when closing the conversation window.
>>
>> I'm planning on cutting the release straight from the release-2.x.y
>> branch, so this fix should be included.
>
> Sorry, the above link was the change that introduced the bug.
>
> The fix is <http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/ab10a481e30f> which still
> needs to be applied to release-2.x.y.

Ah, I see.  I just cherry-picked this from default to release-2.x.y by
running this command from a release-2.x.y source tree:
> hg graft ab10a481e30f

Thanks for keeping track of that!


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