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Pidgin 2.7.9 updates for security and smileys ?!

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 30, 2010

“From the ‘ 🙂 ‘ files:

“The open source pidgin instant messenger client, is out with a
new update fixing at least one security issue as well as an
interesting emoticon/smiley issue.

“Pidgin 2.7.9 has a security fix for what the changelog refers
to as, “a crash when receiving short packets related to P2Pv2. (CVE
ID pending).”


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