[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-3132
2011-03-11 20:25:06
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Name        : pidgin
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 2.7.11
Release     : 1.fc13
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:

New release 2.7.11

Full Upstream ChangeLog:

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

* Fri Mar 11 2011 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.11-1
- 2.7.11, includes security/DoS fixes in Yahoo protocol
  CVE-2011-1091 (#683031)
* Thu Mar 10 2011 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> 2.7.10-2
- Update for NetworkManager 0.9
* Tue Feb 22 2011 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.10-1
- 2.7.10
* Wed Feb  9 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.9-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Feb  1 2011 Milan Crha <mcrha at redhat.com> 2.7.9-3
- Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server
* Wed Jan 12 2011 Milan Crha <mcrha at redhat.com> 2.7.9-2
- Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server
* Mon Dec 27 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.9-1
- 2.7.9, includes security/DoS fix in the MSN protocol (#665856)
* Mon Nov 29 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.7-1
- 2.7.7
- Disable MSNP16 due to regressions interacting with official client
* Fri Nov 19 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.5-2
- Add additional intermediate CA certificates to fix MSN
* Mon Nov  1 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.5-1
- 2.7.5
* Fri Oct 22 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.4-1
- 2.7.4, includes security fix for CVE-2010-3711
* Tue Oct 12 2010 Milan Crha <mcrha at redhat.com> - 2.7.3-6
- Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server
* Wed Sep 29 2010 jkeating - 2.7.3-5
- Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757
* Thu Sep 16 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.3-4
- Rebuild against newer libedataserver
* Mon Sep 13 2010 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> 2.7.3-3
- drop the s390(x) ifarchs
* Mon Aug 23 2010 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 2.7.3-2
- use _isa in explicit Requires on libpurple to prevent yum from trying to 
  jump architectures to resolve dependency
* Wed Aug 11 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.3-1
- 2.7.3
* Wed Jul 21 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.2-1
- 2.7.2 with a security fix (CVE-2010-2528) and a couple of bug fixes (#601650)
* Thu Jul 15 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.1-5
- Rebuild against newer libedataserver
- spec file cleanup:
    replace %define with %global
    replace tabs with spaces for consistency
    mark prefs.xml as a config file
* Wed Jul  7 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.1-4
- Include license in libpurple subpackage
* Tue Jun  1 2010 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 2.7.1-3
- Mass rebuild with perl-5.12.0
* Sun May 30 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.1-2
- Add Obsoletes to pull in pidgin-evolution during update
* Sun May 30 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.1-1
- 2.7.1
- Adds Direct Connection support for MSN
- Numerous bug fixes
- Evolution support moved to pidgin-evolution for F13+ (#581144)
* Thu May 20 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.7.0-2
- Upstream backports:
    3c30f64efedafc379b6536852bbb3b6ef5f1f6c9 - fix for receiving HTML on ICQ
    13fbe0815f84d5b3c001947559f5818c10275f4c - prevent null deref on disconnecting account (#592750)
    c4a874926d07b8597db4b78a181a89cf720a8418 - fix blinking tray icon on new message (#592691)
    cfe0e649dda34d9252d40d8f67e445336a247998 - prevent race condition on Yahoo! login
    e3dd36706068f3b8eabd630ff71d270c145cce42 - fix crash in Oscar (#548128)
    13fbe0815f84d5b3c001947559f5818c10275f4c - fix crash during network disconnect (#592750)
* Thu May 13 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> - 2.7.0-1
- 2.7.0 with features, bug fixes and a security fix: CVE-2010-1624 (#591806)
- Use System SSL Certificates (#576721)
- Add additional dependencies for Voice + Video (#581343)
- Upstream backport:
    87ada76abf90c44e615679efc5f8128bb941bba1 Reduce MSN traffic
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #683031 - CVE-2011-1091 Pidgin: Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws in Yahoo protocol plug-in
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683031
  [ 2 ] Bug #684685 - Cipher API information disclosure in pidgin
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684685
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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/.

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