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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-8687 (pidgin)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: pidgin-2.10.4-1.fc17
Date:  Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:02:54 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120603000255.0274421113@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8687 2012-06-01 16:17:25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : pidgin Product : Fedora 17 Version : 2.10.4 Release : 1.fc17 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix for CVE-2012-2214 and CVE-2012-2318. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed May 30 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher@gmail.com> - 2.10.4-1 - Update to 2.10.4, CVE-2012-2214, CVE-2012-2318, BZ 806839, 819454. - Port to farstream patch upstreamed. * Wed May 2 2012 Milan Crha <mcrha@redhat.com> - 2.10.2-2 - Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #806839 - pidgin-2.10.4 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806839 [ 2 ] Bug #819454 - CVE-2012-2214 CVE-2012-2318 pidgin various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819454 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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