[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc11
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jun 2 14:28:31 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5583
2009-05-28 07:01:59
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Name : pidgin
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 2.5.6
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:
This is a bugfix & security fix release of Pidgin. The full ChangeLog is
available at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Details of the
security fixes included are available at http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/
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ChangeLog:
* 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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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #500488 - CVE-2009-1373 pidgin file transfer buffer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500488
[ 2 ] Bug #500490 - CVE-2009-1374 pidgin DoS when decrypting qq packets
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500490
[ 3 ] Bug #500491 - CVE-2009-1375 pidgin PurpleCircBuffer corruption
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500491
[ 4 ] Bug #500493 - CVE-2009-1376 pidgin incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500493
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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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