[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: pidgin-2.9.0-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-8966
2011-07-01 18:26:49
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Name        : pidgin
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.9.0
Release     : 1.fc15
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 2.9.0

Full Upstream ChangeLog:

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
New release 2.8.0

Full Upstream ChangeLog:

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

* Thu Jun 30 2011 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.8.0-3
- 2.9.0, includes security/DoS fix to work around gdk-pixbuf issue
  CVE-2011-2485
* Mon Jun 20 2011 Milan Crha <mcrha at redhat.com> 2.8.0-3
- Rebuild against new evolution-data-server
* Fri Jun 17 2011 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 2.8.0-2
- Perl mass rebuild
* Mon Jun 13 2011 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 2.8.0-1
- 2.8.0
* Fri May 20 2011 Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee> 2.7.11-4
- Rebuilt for libcamel soname bump
* Tue Apr 26 2011 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> 2.7.11-3
- A few more NetworkManager 0.9 fixes
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #714754 - pidgin: DoS (excessive memory consumption) by processing certain GIF images used as buddy icon
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714754
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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
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