A pidgin-knotify security update has been released for Gentoo Linux
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201402-27
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: High
Title: pidgin-knotify: Arbitrary code execution
Date: February 26, 2014
Bugs: #336916
ID: 201402-27
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Synopsis
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A vulnerability in pidgin-knotify might allow remote attackers to
execute arbitrary code.
Background
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pidgin-knotify is a Pidgin plug-in to display message notifications in
KDE.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 x11-plugins/pidgin-knotify