[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: pidgin-2.7.4-1.fc14
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-16876
2010-10-28 05:06:43
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Name : pidgin
Product : Fedora 14
Version : 2.7.4
Release : 1.fc14
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 2.7.4
Full Upstream ChangeLog:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Oct 22 2010 Stu Tomlinson <stu(a)nosnilmot.com> 2.7.4-1
- 2.7.4, includes security fix for CVE-2010-3711
* Tue Oct 12 2010 Milan Crha <mcrha(a)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
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #641921 - CVE-2010-3711 Pidgin (libpurple): Multiple DoS (crash) flaws by
processing of unsanitized Base64 decoder values
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641921
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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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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