This host has Pidgin installed and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code, corrupt memory and cause the application to crash. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.5.9 http://pidgin.im/download

An error in the 'msn_slplink_process_msg()' function while processing malformed MSN SLP packets which can be exploited to overwrite of an arbitrary memory location.

Pidgin version prior to 2.5.9 on Windows.

• http://secunia.com/advisories/36384
• http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=34
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2303

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Updated on 2015-03-25