[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: pidgin-2.10.9-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-2013
2014-02-05 03:00:42
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Name        : pidgin
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.10.9
Release     : 1.fc20
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:

Update to 2.10.9
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb  3 2014 Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at fedoraproject.org> 2.10.9-1
- Update to 2.10.9
* Thu Sep 26 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 2.10.7-9
- add explicit avahi build deps
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1056473 - CVE-2012-6152 pidgin: DoS when decoding non-UTF-8 strings in Yahoo protocol plugin
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056473
  [ 2 ] Bug #1056479 - CVE-2013-6477 pidgin: DoS when handling timestamps in the XMPP plugin
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056479
  [ 3 ] Bug #1056904 - CVE-2013-6478 pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056904
  [ 4 ] Bug #1056907 - CVE-2013-6479 pidgin: DoS when parsing certain HTTP response headers
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056907
  [ 5 ] Bug #1056908 - CVE-2013-6481 pidgin: DoS caused due to OOB read in Yahoo protocol plugin
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056908
  [ 6 ] Bug #1056913 - CVE-2013-6482 pidgin: DoS via multiple null pointer dereferences in MSN protocol plugin
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056913
  [ 7 ] Bug #1056978 - CVE-2013-6483 pidgin: Possible spoofing using iq replies in XMPP protocol plugin
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056978
  [ 8 ] Bug #1057481 - CVE-2013-6484 pidgin: DoS via specially-crafted stun messages
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057481
  [ 9 ] Bug #1057484 - CVE-2013-6485 pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow when parsing chunked HTTP responses
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057484
  [ 10 ] Bug #1057489 - CVE-2013-6487 pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu protocol plugin
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057489
  [ 11 ] Bug #1057490 - CVE-2013-6489 pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057490
  [ 12 ] Bug #1057498 - CVE-2013-6490 pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in SIMPLE protocol plugin
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057498
  [ 13 ] Bug #1057502 - CVE-2014-0020 pidgin: DoS in IRC protocol plugin due to arguement parsing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057502
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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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