U radu programskog paketa pidgin uočena su i ispravljena četiri sigurnosna nedostatka. Zlonamjerni napadači ranjivosti mogu iskoristiti za DoS (eng. Denial of Service) napad.
Paket:
pidgin 2.x
Operacijski sustavi:
Fedora 16
Kritičnost:
5
Problem:
pogreška u programskoj funkciji, pogreška u programskoj komponenti
Uočene su nepravilnosti u funkcijama "g_markup_escape_text" i "silc_channel_message", komponenti "family_feedbag.c" i implemetaciji protokola XMPP (eng. Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol).
Posljedica:
Napadač može navedene propuste iskoristiti za napad uskraćivanjem usluga (eng. Denial of Service, DoS).
Rješenje:
Korisnici se potiču na korištenje programskih zakrpi koje otklanjaju navedne nedostatke.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4595
2012-03-24 00:06:16
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Name : pidgin
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 2.10.2
Release : 1.fc16
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:
version 2.10.2 (03/14/2012)
View all closed tickets for this release.
General:
Fix compilation when using binutils 2.22 and new GDK pixbuf. (#14799)
Fix compilation of the MXit protocol plugin with GLib 2.31. (#14773)
Pidgin:
Add support for the GNOME3 Network dialog. (#13882)
Fix rare crash. (#14392)
Add support for the GNOME3 Default Application dialog for configuring
the Browser.
libpurple:
Support new connection states and signals for NetworkManager 0.9+. (Dan
Williams) (#13859)
AIM and ICQ:
Fix a possible crash when receiving an unexpected message from the
server. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14983)
Allow signing on with usernames containing periods and underscores.
(#13500)
Allow adding buddies containing periods and underscores. (#13500)
Don't try to format ICQ usernames entered as email addresses. Gets rid
of an "Unable to format username" error at login. (#13883)
MSN:
Fix possible crashes caused by not validating incoming messages as
UTF-8. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14884)
Support new protocol version MSNP18. (#14753)
Fix messages to offline contacts. (#14302)
Windows-Specific Changes:
Fix the installer downloading of spell-checking dictionaries (#14612)
Fix compilation of the Bonjour protocol plugin. (#14802)
Plugins:
The autoaccept plugin will no longer reset the preference for unknown
buddies to "Auto Reject" in certain cases. (#14964)
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Mar 23 2012 Jon Ciesla <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> - 2.10.2-1
- Update to 2.10.2, BZ 803293, 803299.
- Dropping MSN patches. Protocol patch not needed, won't connect
- to 16 by default. Crash patch was upstreamed.
- Dropped nm09 patch, upstreamed.
* Fri Mar 9 2012 Tom Callaway <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> - 2.10.1-4
- fedora 17+ uses farstream now instead of farsight2
* Wed Jan 18 2012 Matthew Barnes <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> - 2.10.1-3
- Map RHEL 7 to Fedora 16 (for now).
* Wed Jan 18 2012 Matthew Barnes <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> - 2.10.1-2
- Map RHEL 7 to Fedora 16 (for now).
* Thu Dec 29 2011 Stu Tomlinson <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> 2.10.1-1
- 2.10.1, includes security fixes for CVE-2011-3594, CVE-2011-4601,
CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-4603
* Mon Nov 28 2011 Milan Crha <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> 2.10.0-5
- Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server
* Sun Oct 30 2011 Bruno Wolff III <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> 2.10.0-4
- Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #803293 - pidgin-2.10.2 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803293
[ 2 ] Bug #803299 - pidgin various flaws [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803299
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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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