| Description: | Updated pidgin packages that fix a security issue are now available for RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multipleaccounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously.Federico Muttis of Core Security Technologies discovered a flaw in Pidgin'sMSN protocol handler. If a user received a malicious MSN message, it waspossible to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user runningPidgin. (CVE-2009-2694) |