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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-7415
2009-07-03 18:39:21
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Name        : pidgin
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.5.8
Release     : 1.fc9
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:

Several important bug fixes:  - More fixes for Yahoo protocol 16  - MSN,
MySpace, XMPP  - CVE-2009-1889
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Jun 28 2009 Warren Togami  2.5.8-1
- 2.5.8 with several important bug fixes
* Mon Jun 22 2009 Warren Togami  2.5.7-2
- glib2 compat with RHEL-4
* Sat Jun 20 2009 Warren Togami  2.5.7-1
- 2.5.7 with Yahoo Protocol 16 support
* Wed May 20 2009 Stu Tomlinson  2.5.6-1
- 2.5.6
* Mon Apr 20 2009 Warren Togami  2.5.5-3
- F12+ removed krb4
* Tue Mar  3 2009 Stu Tomlinson  2.5.5-1
- 2.5.5
* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering  - 2.5.4-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jan 27 2009 Warren Togami  2.5.4-2
- one_time_password plugin
- Eliminate RPATH
* Mon Jan 12 2009 Stu Tomlinson  2.5.4-1
- 2.5.4
* Fri Dec 26 2008 Warren Togami  2.5.3-1
- 2.5.3
* Sat Nov 22 2008 Warren Togami  2.5.2-6
- Automatically detect booleans to enable build features from dist tag
- Unify RHEL4 and RHEL5 spec with Fedora to make both easier to maintain
* Fri Nov 21 2008 Warren Togami  2.5.2-2
- Upstream backports:
  100: sametime-redirect-null crash
  101: NetworkManager-improvement
  102: no-password-in-dialog-if-not-remembering
  103: temporarily-remember-password-during-auto-reconnect
  104: smilie-theme-change-crash
  105: url_fetch_connect_cb-double-free crash
  106: GtkIMHtmlSmileys-remove-crash
  107: remove-dialog-from-open-dialog-list
* Mon Oct 20 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.5.2-1
- 2.5.2
- Generate doxygen API documentation (#466693)
* Tue Sep 16 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.5.1-3
- Backport fixes from upstream:
  Add "Has You:" back to MSN tooltips
  Fix crash during removal of your own buddy icon
  Fix crash when handling self signed certificate with NSS SSL
* Tue Sep 16 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.5.1-2
- Fix a crash with GNOME proxy enabled (#461951)
* Sun Aug 31 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.5.1-1
- 2.5.1
* Sat Aug 23 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.5.0-1
- 2.5.0
* Tue Jul  1 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.4.3-1.1
- Add a patch to build with latest rawhide tcl
* Tue Jul  1 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.4.3-1
- 2.4.3
* Sat May 17 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.4.2-1
- 2.4.2
* Tue May 13 2008 Stu Tomlinson  2.4.1-3
- Rebuild for new evolution-data-server
- Clean up default prefs.xml
- Enable nautilus integration plugin by default in prefs.xml (#242289)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #508738 - CVE-2009-1889 pidgin: DoS via specially-crafted ICQWebMessage
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508738
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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 .

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/security/
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