The latest variant of the popular open source instant messaging application, Pidgin 2.10.1, comes with several functionality bug fixes, but also with some important ones that resolve flaws which could have allowed an attacker to launch a malicious operation.
One of the issues, reported by Evgeny Boger, could have be... |
16 December 2011
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The latest release of Pidgin, has landed and includes only bug fixes. These affect a hefty number of the supported protocols.
Pidgin 2.10.1 mends problems with AIM and ICQ protocols, where validating strings in a few messages related to buddy list management could cause remotely-triggered crashes.
In the case of IR... |
15 December 2011
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Several security issues have been addressed in version 2.10.0 of the Pidgin instant messaging application, which could be exploited to trigger a denial of service condition or compromise the system.The vulnerability that can have the most serious impact stems from the IM client previously executing files when users c... |
22 August 2011
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A few days ago, the Pidgin development team released a new version of its multi-protocol instant messaging client. As with any other edition of the application, the team invested a lot of time and effort in delivering the best of quality. With the latest edition, only 2.70, a bug managed to go by unnoticed despite ex... |
17 May 2010
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You have to stay connected. This is probably the single statement agreed upon globally. Keep up with what your friends are doing on social networks, crowd-source new concepts, communicate in more diverse and feature-rich ways. Pidgin is a great tool for this always-connected world we are living in, because it enables... |
31 August 2009
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CORESecurity recently discovered and quietly informed Pidgin developers of a security vulnerability inside the main Pidgin core library that would have permitted third parties to remotely execute malware on a computer. Through the latest releases of the Pidgin instant messaging software, the vulnerability was success... |
19 August 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Pidgin users have a lot of things to be happy about with the release of the 2.6.0 version of their favorite instant messaging application, announced this morning by John Bailey. Thanks to the hard work of developers and contributors, the new release has a plethora of new features, about 221 bug fixes, all listed in a... |
19 August 2009
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Two days ago, Yahoo! Inc. did something to its messenger servers, something that practically blocked all the Linux IM clients, such as Pidgin, Kopete, Empathy or GyachI. While many of us thought it might be an ISP issue, some very smart people found out the truth: Yahoo! changed the login method! However, at this mom... |
21 June 2009
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Jabber has millions of fans all over the world and since it's a free and open protocol, lots of companies and individual users has already adopted it. There are numerous servers out there and a lot of applications which could let users connect to them but, at this time, only a number of small programs managed to... |
27 May 2008
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Google Talk is a simple instant messaging client which was powered by the Mountain View company in order to allow the consumers to communicate on the Internet with ease. At this time, Google Talk didn't manage to reach an impressive audience as the leadership of the category is still owned by Yahoo Messenger. Ma... |
3 October 2007
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As I was waiting for the final release of Gaim (2.0.0), I saw some news on the Gaim's RSS a couple of weeks ago and I've rushed in to see what's new in the Gaim's world (maybe an Easter present?). But I was really disappointed to see that Gaim will no longer exist, starting with 6th April. Hold o... |
30 April 2007
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