Niez | 13 Jan 2011 20:42
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How to make Pidgin Crash thanks to SILC

Hi,
        Here is the message i sent 4 months ago to security <at> pidgin.im .
        I never
        received answer and the bug was still uncorrected in the 2.7.9
        version
        of Pidgin.

        I forward you this message to be careful when using the SILC
        implementation on Pidgin (which has many other problems).

        Raspoudhon

        "Hi,
        I'm using the official SILC client and when i send a file to a
        pidgin
        user using this command :
        /file send /path/file Nickname -no-listener

        I got a crash of Pidgin and a segmentation fault, after he
        accepts the
        file.

        If i remove the -no-listener parameter, the user is only
        disconnected
        from the server.

        Here are some informations i could retrieve from the logs :

        Backtrace :
        GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu
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