Secure testing team - Aug 2009 - Bug#543170: pidgin prior to 2.5.9 HAS SECURITY ISSUE CVE-2009-2694

Package: pidgin
Version: pidgin prior to 2.5.9 HAS SECURITY ISSUE CVE-2009-2694
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: root security hole

pidgin prior to 2.5.9 HAS SECURITY ISSUE CVE-2009-2694 
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=34



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, ''stable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash