I have got the same problem.
Just upgraded from Ubuntu 7.08 to 8.04 and pidgin doesn't even starts,
giving me this error :
$ pidgin
*** stack smashing detected ***: pidgin terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0xb765e138]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0xb765e0f0]
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0[0xb5b01c44]
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0[0xb5adb524]
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0(jabber_iq_parse+0xfa)[0xb5ae8aff]
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0(jabber_process_packet+0x89)[0xb5ae957d]
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0[0xb5af50a1]
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2[0xb7477f34]
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2(xmlParseChunk+0x589)[0xb74847b9]
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0(jabber_parser_process+0x9d)[0xb5af5224]
/usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so.0[0xb5aea00f]
/usr/lib/libpurple.so.0[0xb786ea3e]
pidgin[0x80abca3]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb7769c5d]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x178)[0xb7735bf8]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb7738e5e]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1e7)[0xb77391e7]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xb4)[0xb7bf7264]
pidgin(main+0xbbc)[0x80c70d5]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7587450]
pidgin[0x806c821]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08115000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11292944 /usr/bin/pidgin
08115000-08118000 rw-p 000cc000 08:01 11292944 /usr/bin/pidgin
08118000-0873c000 rw-p 08118000 00:00 0 [heap]
b37e7000-b37f6000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 8323108 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.4
b37f6000-b37f7000 rw-p 0000f000 08:01 8323108 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.4
b37f7000-b3856000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 10553879 /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
b3856000-b3858000 rw-p 0005e000 08:01 10553879 /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
b3858000-b388a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 10553318 /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3.0.1
b388a000-b388d000 rw-p 00031000 08:01 10553318 /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3.0.1
b388d000-b38bd000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 10551350 /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.114.0.7
b38bd000-b38c0000 rw-p 0002f000 08:01 10551350 /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.114.0.7
b38c0000-b38c1000 rw-p b38c0000 00:00 0
b38c1000-b38f1000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 10553157 /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2.22.2
b38f1000-b38f2000 rw-p 00030000 08:01 10553157 /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2.22.2
b3908000-b3909000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 10600535
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so
b3909000-b390a000 rw-p 00000000 08:01 10600535
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so
b390a000-b396a000 rw-s 00000000 00:09 2097180 /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b396a000-b3a6e000 rw-p b396a000 00:00 0
b3a6e000-b3af5000 r--p 00000000 08:01 196636
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
b3af5000-b3b0c000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7340319
/var/lib/aspell/en_US-wo_accents-only.rws
b3b0c000-b3d94000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7340307 /var/lib/aspell/en-common.rws
b3d94000-b3e98000 rw-p b3d94000 00:00 0
b3e98000-b3e9a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 10682391
/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
b3e9a000-b3e9b000 rw-p 00001000 08:01 10682391
/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
b3e9b000-b3f2c000 r--p 00000000 08:01 196635
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
b3f2c000-b3f32000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342260
/var/cache/fontconfig/945677eb7aeaf62f1d50efc3fb3ec7d8-x86.cache-2
b3f32000-b3f35000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342318
/var/cache/fontconfig/e383d7ea5fbe662a33d9b44caf393297-x86.cache-2
b3f35000-b3f36000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342316
/var/cache/fontconfig/fd9505950c048a77dc4b710eb6a628ed-x86.cache-2
b3f36000-b3f38000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342314
/var/cache/fontconfig/ddc79d3ea06a7c6ffa86ede85f3bb5df-x86.cache-2
b3f38000-b3f39000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342312
/var/cache/fontconfig/e3fa16a14183b06aa45b3e009278fd14-x86.cache-2
b3f39000-b3f3a000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342310
/var/cache/fontconfig/e7071f4a29fa870f4323321c154eba04-x86.cache-2
b3f3a000-b3f3b000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342308
/var/cache/fontconfig/a2ab74764b07279e7c36ddb1d302cf26-x86.cache-2
b3f3b000-b3f3f000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342306
/var/cache/fontconfig/921a30a17f0be15c70ac14043cb7a739-x86.cache-2
b3f3f000-b3f40000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342304
/var/cache/fontconfig/c69f04ab05004e31a6d5e715764f16d8-x86.cache-2
b3f40000-b3f41000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342302
/var/cache/fontconfig/4c73fe0c47614734b17d736dbde7580a-x86.cache-2
b3f41000-b3f43000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342300
/var/cache/fontconfig/646addb8444faa74ee138aa00ab0b6a0-x86.cache-2
b3f43000-b3f46000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342298
/var/cache/fontconfig/a755afe4a08bf5b97852ceb7400b47bc-x86.cache-2
b3f46000-b3f48000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342296
/var/cache/fontconfig/20bd79ad97094406f7d1b9654bfbd926-x86.cache-2
b3f48000-b3f4a000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342294
/var/cache/fontconfig/9c0624108b9a2ae8552f664125be8356-x86.cache-2
b3f4a000-b3f51000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342292
/var/cache/fontconfig/6d41288fd70b0be22e8c3a91e032eec0-x86.cache-2
b3f51000-b3f54000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342290
/var/cache/fontconfig/de156ccd2eddbdc19d37a45b8b2aac9c-x86.cache-2
b3f54000-b3f56000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342276
/var/cache/fontconfig/da1bd5ca8443ffe22927a23ce431d198-x86.cache-2
b3f56000-b3f5e000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342288
/var/cache/fontconfig/e3de0de479f42330eadf588a55fb5bf4-x86.cache-2
b3f5e000-b3f66000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342326
/var/cache/fontconfig/0f34bcd4b6ee430af32735b75db7f02b-x86.cache-2
b3f66000-b3f67000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342284
/var/cache/fontconfig/4794a0821666d79190d59a36cb4f44b5-x86.cache-2
b3f67000-b3f6a000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342282
/var/cache/fontconfig/de9486f0b47a4d768a594cb4198cb1c6-x86.cache-2
b3f6a000-b3f71000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342280
/var/cache/fontconfig/d52a8644073d54c13679302ca1180695-x86.cache-2
b3f71000-b3f74000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7342278
/var/cache/fontconfig/6386b86020ecc1ef9690bb720a13964f-x86.cache-2
b3f74000-b3f7d000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7340695
/var/cache/fontconfig/089dead882dea3570ffc31a9898cfb69-x86.cache-2
b3f7d000-b3f8a000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7340577
/var/cache/fontconfig/e13b20fdb08344e0e664864cc2ede53d-x86.cache-2
b3f8a000-b3f98000 r--s 00000000 08:01 7340747
/var/cache/fontconfig/865f88548240fee46819705c6468c165-x86.cache-2
b3f98000-b4412000 r--p 00000000 08:01 10878989
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
b4412000-b4b82000 r--p 00000000 08:01 10879880 /usr/share/iconsAborted
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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stack smashing detected: pidgin terminated
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211507
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