Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-5583 (pidgin)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc11 | |
| Date: | Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:28:31 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20090602142831.AD43210F80A@bastion2.fedora.phx.redhat.com> | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-5583 2009-05-28 07:01:59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed May 20 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu@nosnilmot.com> 2.5.6-1 - 2.5.6 * Mon Apr 20 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> 2.5.5-3 - F12+ removed krb4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...