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Fedora 28: Security Update for pidgin-sipe and Critical FreeRDP Fix

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Essential security enhancement for pidgin-sipe tackles FreeRDP vulnerabilities to bolster system resilience and efficiency.
FreeRDP fix for CVE-2018-1000852, Remmina bugfix update and rebuilds for updated FreeRDP.

Summary

A third-party plugin for the Pidgin multi-protocol instant messenger.

It implements the extended version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various products:

* Skype for Business

* Microsoft Office 365

* Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)

* Microsoft Lync Server

* Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2)

* Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005)

With this plugin you should be able to replace your Microsoft Office

Communicator client with Pidgin.

This package provides the icon set for Pidgin.

FreeRDP fix for CVE-2018-1000852, Remmina bugfix update and rebuilds for updated

FreeRDP.

* Thu Feb 28 2019 Simone Caronni - 1.24.0-3

- Rebuild for FreeRDP update.

* Sat Feb 2 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.24.0-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild

* Sat Nov 10 2018 Stefan Becker - 1.24.0-1

- update to 1.24.0:

- add support for Application Sharing Server

- use user agent also for HTTP

- add support for new AppStream metadata file location

- add BR appstream & freerdp-shadow2

* Mon Aug 20 2018 Stefan Becker - 1.23.3-1

- update to 1.23.3:

- various bug fixes

- drop obsolete patch for Remmina v1.2.0 rcgit.27 fix

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.23.2-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Jun 27 2018 Stefan Becker - 1.23.2-2

- add upstream patch for Remmina v1.2.0 rcgit.27 (bz #1594900)

[ 1 ] Bug #1635839 - [abrt] vinagre: init_freerdp(): vinagre killed by SIGSEGV

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1635839

[ 2 ] Bug #1655205 - [abrt] vinagre: init_freerdp(): vinagre killed by SIGSEGV

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655205

[ 3 ] Bug #1677320 - Cannot connect to xrdp server

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677320

[ 4 ] Bug #1684154 - CVE-2018-8786 freerdp: Integer truncation leading to heap-based buffer overflow in update_read_bitmap_update() function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1684154

[ 5 ] Bug #1661642 - CVE-2018-1000852 freerdp: out of bounds read in drdynvc_process_capability_request [fedora-28]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1661642

[ 6 ] Bug #1665682 - [abrt] remmina: poll_for_event(): remmina killed by SIGABRT

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665682

[ 7 ] Bug #1660515 - Remmina NX plugin no longer works

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660515

[ 8 ] Bug #1667632 - remmina-1.3.3 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1667632

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 1.24.0
Release: 3.fc28
Summary: Pidgin protocol plugin to connect to MS Office Communicator

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