[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc9
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jun 2 14:26:30 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5552
2009-05-28 07:01:28
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Name : pidgin
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 2.5.6
Release : 1.fc9
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
* Tue Mar 3 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.5-1
- 2.5.5
* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.5.4-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jan 27 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.5.4-2
- one_time_password plugin
- Eliminate RPATH
* Mon Jan 12 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.4-1
- 2.5.4
* Fri Dec 26 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.5.3-1
- 2.5.3
* Sat Nov 22 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.5.2-6
- Automatically detect booleans to enable build features from dist tag
- Unify RHEL4 and RHEL5 spec with Fedora to make both easier to maintain
* Fri Nov 21 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.5.2-2
- Upstream backports:
100: sametime-redirect-null crash
101: NetworkManager-improvement
102: no-password-in-dialog-if-not-remembering
103: temporarily-remember-password-during-auto-reconnect
104: smilie-theme-change-crash
105: url_fetch_connect_cb-double-free crash
106: GtkIMHtmlSmileys-remove-crash
107: remove-dialog-from-open-dialog-list
* Mon Oct 20 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.2-1
- 2.5.2
- Generate doxygen API documentation (#466693)
* Tue Sep 16 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.1-3
- Backport fixes from upstream:
Add "Has You:" back to MSN tooltips
Fix crash during removal of your own buddy icon
Fix crash when handling self signed certificate with NSS SSL
* Tue Sep 16 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.1-2
- Fix a crash with GNOME proxy enabled (#461951)
* Sun Aug 31 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.1-1
- 2.5.1
* Sat Aug 23 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.5.0-1
- 2.5.0
* Tue Jul 1 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.4.3-1.1
- Add a patch to build with latest rawhide tcl
* Tue Jul 1 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.4.3-1
- 2.4.3
* Sat May 17 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.4.2-1
- 2.4.2
* Tue May 13 2008 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.4.1-3
- Rebuild for new evolution-data-server
- Clean up default prefs.xml
- Enable nautilus integration plugin by default in prefs.xml (#242289)
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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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