[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: pidgin-2.6.0-1.fc11

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8804
2009-08-20 20:33:46
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Name        : pidgin
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 2.6.0
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://pidgin.im/
Summary     : A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client
Description :
Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging
protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu,
ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and
Zephyr.  These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to
use design.  To use a protocol, just add an account using the
account editor.

Pidgin supports many common features of other clients, as well as many
unique features, such as perl scripting, TCL scripting and C plugins.

Pidgin is not affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc.,
Microsoft Corporation, Yahoo! Inc., or ICQ Inc.

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Update Information:

pidgin upgrade to 2.6.0 for the CVE-2009-2694, insufficient input validation in
msn_slplink_process_msg().  2.6.0 has Voice and Video support via farsight2
(Fedora 11+ only) and numerous other bug fixes.    farsight2, libnice and gupnp-
igd are version upgrades to make voice and video actually work on Fedora 11.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug 18 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.6.0-1
- CVE-2009-2694
- Voice and Video support via farsight2 (Fedora 11+)
- Numerous other bug fixes
* Thu Aug  6 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.6.0-0.11.20090812
- new snapshot at the request of maiku
* Thu Aug  6 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.6.0-0.10.20090806
- new snapshot - theoretically better sound quality in voice chat
* Tue Aug  4 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.6.0-0.9.20090804
- new snapshot
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.6.0-0.8.20090727
- new snapshot
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.6.0-0.6.20090721
- Prevent main libpurple & pidgin packages depending on perl (#513902)
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.6.0-0.5.20090721
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jul 22 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.6.0-0.4.20090721
- rebuild
* Tue Jul 21 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.6.0-0.3.20090721
- prevent crash with no camera when closing vv window
* Tue Jul 21 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.6.0-0.1.20090721
- 2.6.0 snapshot with voice and video support via farsight2
* Sat Jul 11 2009 Stu Tomlison <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.8-2
- Backport patch from upstream to enable NSS to recognize root CA
  certificates that use MD2 & MD4 algorithms in their signature, as
  used by some MSN and XMPP servers
* Sun Jun 28 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redat.com> 2.5.8-1
- 2.5.8 with several important bug fixes
* Mon Jun 22 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.5.7-2
- glib2 compat with RHEL-4
* Sat Jun 20 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.5.7-1
- 2.5.7 with Yahoo Protocol 16 support
* Wed May 20 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.6-1
- 2.5.6
* Mon Apr 20 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.5.5-3
- F12+ removed krb4
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update pidgin' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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