[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: pidgin-2.2.1-1.fc7

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Thu Oct 4 18:44:26 UTC 2007 

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-2368
2007-10-03 21:11:27
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Name        : pidgin
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 2.2.1
Release     : 1.fc7
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:

Minor DOS fix and a great many other bug fixes in upstream's 2.2.1 release.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
Upstream changelog.

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Oct  1 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> - 2.2.1-1
- 2.2.1 with many bug fixes and CVE-2007-4996 DOS fix
* Sat Sep 29 2007 Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> - 2.2.0-3
- Build against avahi proper instead of its HOWL compatibility layer
* Tue Sep 18 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> - 2.2.0-2
- License clarification
- Backport patches to fix memory leaks
- Backport patches to fix proxy settings & status scores
* Tue Sep 18 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> - 2.2.0-1
- 2.2.0
* Mon Aug 20 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> - 2.1.1-1
- 2.1.1
* Wed Aug 15 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> - 2.1.0-2
- Upstream fix backports
  115: gmail-notification-crash #2323
  117: drag-and-drop-mouse-click-group-header #2333
  118: jabber-confirm-authentication-unencrypted-crash #2493
* Mon Aug  6 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com>
- require exact version of libpurple (#250720)
* Mon Jul 30 2007 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> - 2.1.0-1
- 2.1.0
- Only include translations in libpurple instead of duplicating them in
  packages that depend on libpurple anyway
* Tue Jun 19 2007 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> - 2.0.2-3
- libpurple obsoletes and provides gaim
  This smoothens multilib the upgrade path.
* Fri Jun 15 2007 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> - 2.0.2-1
- 2.0.2
* Wed Jun  6 2007 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> - 2.0.1-5
- Enable Bonjour support (#242949)
- Fix building against latest evolution-data-server
* Tue Jun  5 2007 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> - 2.0.1-4
- Fix purple-remote for AIM & ICQ accounts (#240589)
- Add missing Requires to -devel packages
- Add missing BuildRequires for libxml2-devel
* Thu May 31 2007 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> - 2.0.1-2
- Call g_thread_init early (#241883)
- Fix purple-remote syntax error (#241905)
* Mon May 28 2007 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> - 2.0.1-1
- 2.0.1
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References:

  [ 1 ] CVE-2007-4996
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4996
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Updated packages:

1fd2b17ccd19358e4cb80260a42865be77e1ce0d finch-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
aee780078a9d282f8fde602472e2a0e467456bd9 pidgin-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
bdf8404b65ed66c2e876bbaee0aae8e27221bf66 libpurple-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
989231a51da735c9f151ffa6870faa19d39bb411 pidgin-perl-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
cbb98d11c7d889558d4ea68ed616faed3b91718f pidgin-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
4cebb7903097018b87052955a92ffaa09d09e35c libpurple-tcl-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
100c436eb959b8e8749038873ce2370c3c97021d libpurple-perl-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
a02ee081b0f0136022201591c22e7ac68703e44d pidgin-debuginfo-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
bfbfe0af13fef9ffe018cef80d25f2da5dc4d15c finch-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
b4b2fd6aaf9ec44666826d1604ff722f1870e420 libpurple-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
61e230f5224df6101bf776a568abe2d7a118506d finch-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
36d86f2868eee87a06ff3e4c2c3c0e392b19b524 pidgin-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
d5fe37158e49f7b74bcfa07659145d226a1f42ee libpurple-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
b5de0396a7a47d6f1575b912d75c755b782ed4b7 pidgin-perl-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
527b8c79899f99ecbdc4bcf62917916745e042bb libpurple-tcl-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
99537dc21782cbfea9eaefd3ad1d2de53a1d5f07 libpurple-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
515f1baa39457125743f8470e4efd10dc47e5bed finch-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
023a3429b2a32d77166769f6ce32d95d04867b31 pidgin-debuginfo-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
105715c1b988dc33dced6ba614cdc298816e5b25 pidgin-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
facda47de9680ba2dd85e35f2ca1d7092ddf57b3 libpurple-perl-2.2.1-1.fc7.i386.rpm
b2b6f90242828a215248ec224dc6deebee79cc21 libpurple-perl-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
8cd87905480b5a992d34dbe98fa6aa4601e6a4e1 libpurple-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
e6d642f8090658595005d2398541140a8fb065f5 pidgin-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
206c001676f7e37172d17816bf36b8f1ae99f814 finch-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
ccad7f99d346c8f0a89a9ab037be6a43812a5ed4 pidgin-perl-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
338a2a241a933e8a81c17c9cf387718e1d40c2b9 finch-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
6152293dd7f524613ee21e5ca1df2ce2434939bc libpurple-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
b3a409e0b8b0544b5d156f50dc3100db8f29af4d pidgin-debuginfo-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
df3abe323428c1375d9ebd336296d95e85ed3530 pidgin-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
2284320a5f802350d5f46c75c5f19a18193db4ab libpurple-tcl-2.2.1-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
0252e9b5a827f3bacccba103bef98c6590ff6557 libpurple-tcl-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
d97ca4d818dd09f7bd91cbdbc2cd3d613b8bd0c2 pidgin-debuginfo-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
af5a1690a0e6f7dc40c35ee7502732fbcf566210 libpurple-perl-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
80760011fa7026fccae58458c4bba933accf2b48 libpurple-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
60dece3ff9da03ecd02d35bd89be00592a8591a2 libpurple-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
ea2e9b6472c301ed8bb99518a95ca37a5f2d89bb pidgin-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
75bab10cd9adb2b7a6f7f7a5e9a63c26ca713fb3 finch-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
25c62eeaffeee7efe35fc77a66771b0f07480580 pidgin-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
29247e9cddcf0adc3e309e9b38d93c7c76d0ca67 pidgin-perl-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
29744696b89896f4d8eebf97dfa7cdecfaf5891d finch-devel-2.2.1-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
dd80bf4cd6e060378009574373b2e97b29e1dc56 pidgin-2.2.1-1.fc7.src.rpm

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/.
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