[Desktop-packages] [Bug 319354] Re: MSN user name change to often causes msg box overflow and kills client
Closing due to age. If a similar bug appears in Ubuntu 14.04 please open a new report. ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319354 Title: MSN user name change to often causes msg box overflow and kills client Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: pidgin If the MSN user changes its name too often, then there is an error msg that shows up, it does not say which user, just that it was too often. If the name continues to change too often, there will be hundreds of such boxes open. this is a form of an attack,and can kill the client process and block then entire session. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/319354/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 319354] Re: MSN user name change to often causes msg box overflow and kills client
i dont know, i guess i could create a test case for it. I am very busy right now. On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Mörgæs wrote: > Is this still a problem in 13.10? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319354 > > Title: > MSN user name change to often causes msg box overflow and kills client > > Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: pidgin > > If the MSN user changes its name too often, then > there is an error msg that shows up, it does not say which user, just that > it was too often. > If the name continues to change too often, there will be hundreds of such > boxes open. > this is a form of an attack,and can kill the client process and block then > entire session. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/319354/+subscriptions -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319354 Title: MSN user name change to often causes msg box overflow and kills client Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: pidgin If the MSN user changes its name too often, then there is an error msg that shows up, it does not say which user, just that it was too often. If the name continues to change too often, there will be hundreds of such boxes open. this is a form of an attack,and can kill the client process and block then entire session. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/319354/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 319354] Re: MSN user name change to often causes msg box overflow and kills client
Is this still a problem in 13.10? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319354 Title: MSN user name change to often causes msg box overflow and kills client Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: pidgin If the MSN user changes its name too often, then there is an error msg that shows up, it does not say which user, just that it was too often. If the name continues to change too often, there will be hundreds of such boxes open. this is a form of an attack,and can kill the client process and block then entire session. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/319354/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
