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Fedora 11: 2009-8804 Moderate: Pidgin Farsight2 Video Support

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhance farsight2 for better audio and video functionality in Pidgin on Fedora 11. Mitigate CVE-2009-2694 related to input validation vulnerabilities.
pidgin upgrade to 2.6.0 for the CVE-2009-2694, insufficient input validation in msn_slplink_process_msg()

Summary

farsight2 is a collection of GStreamer modules and libraries for

videoconferencing.

Update Information:

pidgin upgrade to 2.6.0 for the CVE-2009-2694, insufficient input validation in msn_slplink_process_msg(). 2.6.0 has Voice and Video support via farsight2 (Fedora 11+ only) and numerous other bug fixes. farsight2, libnice and gupnp- igd are version upgrades to make voice and video actually work on Fedora 11.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora input validation pidgin farsight2 video support

Change Log

* Thu Aug 6 2009 Warren Togami - 0.0.14-1 - 0.0.14 * Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.0.12-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 22 2009 Warren Togami - 0.0.12-3 - rebuild * Mon Jun 22 2009 Brian Pepple - 0.0.12-2 - Remove unnecessary requires on gst-plugins-farsight. * Sat May 30 2009 Brian Pepple - 0.0.12-1 - Update to 0.0.12. * Tue May 26 2009 Brian Pepple - 0.0.11-1 - Update to 0.0.11. * Wed May 20 2009 Brian Pepple - 0.0.10-1 - Update to 0.0.10.

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8804 2009-08-20 20:33:46
Name : farsight2 Product : Fedora 11 Version : 0.0.14 Release : 1.fc11 URL : Summary : Libraries for videoconferencing Description : farsight2 is a collection of GStreamer modules and libraries for videoconferencing.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update farsight2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: farsight2
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.0.14
Release: 1.fc11
URL: Summary : Libraries for videoconferencing

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora input validation pidgin farsight2 video support

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