U radu programskog paketa pidgin primijećeni su sigurnosni nedostaci. Udaljeni zlonamjerni korisnici ih mogu iskoristiti za napad uskraćivanjem usluga (DoS).

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8687
2012-06-01 16:17:25
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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.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2012-2214 and CVE-2012-2318.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May 30 2012 Jon Ciesla <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> - 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 <Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.> - 2.10.2-2
- Rebuild against newer evolution-data-server
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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
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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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