Fedora 11 Update: pidgin-2.6.3-2.fc11
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:
CVE-2009-3615
Change Log
* Mon Oct 19 2009 Warren Togami
References
[ 1 ] Bug #529357 - CVE-2009-3615 Pidgin: Invalid pointer dereference (crash) after receiving contacts from SIM IM client https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529357
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 .