Fedora 9 Update: pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc9
Summary
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:
This is a bugfix & security fix release of Pidgin. The full ChangeLog is available at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Details of the security fixes included are available at http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/
Change Log
* Wed May 20 2009 Stu Tomlinson
References
[ 1 ] Bug #500488 - CVE-2009-1373 pidgin file transfer buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500488 [ 2 ] Bug #500490 - CVE-2009-1374 pidgin DoS when decrypting qq packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500490 [ 3 ] Bug #500491 - CVE-2009-1375 pidgin PurpleCircBuffer corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500491 [ 4 ] Bug #500493 - CVE-2009-1376 pidgin incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500493
Update Instructions
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 .