openSUSE Security Update: pidgin: 2.10.7 update to fix security issues and bugs
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2013:0511-1
Rating:             important
References:         #804742 #806975 
Cross-References:   CVE-2013-0271 CVE-2013-0272 CVE-2013-0273
                    CVE-2013-0274
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 12.3
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   An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:


   Pidgin was updated to 2.10.7 to fix various security issues
   and the bug that IRC did not work at all in 12.3.

   Changes:
   - Add pidgin-irc-sasl.patch: link irc module to SASL.
   Allows the IRC module to be loaded (bnc#806975).

   - Update to version 2.10.7 (bnc#804742):
   + Alien hatchery:
   - No changes
   + General:
   - The configure script will now exit with status 1 when
   specifying invalid protocol plugins using the
   --with-static-prpls and --with-dynamic-prpls
   arguments. (pidgin.im#15316)
   + libpurple:
   - Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with
   abnormally long values. (CVE-2013-0274)
   - Don't link directly to libgcrypt when building with
   GnuTLS support. (pidgin.im#15329)
   - Fix UPnP mappings on routers that return empty
    elements in their response. (pidgin.im#15373)
   - Tcl plugin uses saner, race-free plugin loading.
   - Fix the Tcl signals-test plugin for
   savedstatus-changed. (pidgin.im#15443)
   + Pidgin:
   - Make Pidgin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as
   MacPorts' +no_x11 variant.
   + Gadu-Gadu:
   - Fix a crash at startup with large contact list.
   Avatar support for buddies will be disabled until 3.0.0.
   (pidgin.im#15226, pidgin.im#14305)
   + IRC:
   - Support for SASL authentication. (pidgin.im#13270)
   - Print topic setter information at channel join.
   (pidgin.im#13317)
   + MSN:
   - Fix SSL certificate issue when signing into MSN for
   some users.
   - Fix a crash when removing a user before its icon is
   loaded. (pidgin.im#15217)
   + MXit:
   - Fix a bug where a remote MXit user could possibly
   specify a local file path to be written to. (CVE-2013-0271)
   - Fix a bug where the MXit server or a
   man-in-the-middle could potentially send specially crafted
   data that could overflow a buffer and lead to a crash or
   remote code execution. (CVE-2013-0272)
   - Display farewell messages in a different colour to
   distinguish them from normal messages.
   - Add support for typing notification.
   - Add support for the Relationship Status profile
   attribute.
   - Remove all reference to Hidden Number.
   - Ignore new invites to join a GroupChat if you're
   already joined, or still have a pending invite.
   - The buddy's name was not centered vertically in the
   buddy-list if they did not have a status-message or mood
   set.
   - Fix decoding of font-size changes in the markup of
   received messages.
   - Increase the maximum file size that can be
   transferred to 1 MB.
   - When setting an avatar image, no longer downscale it
   to 96x96.
   + Sametime:
   - Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends
   us an abnormally long user ID. (CVE-2013-0273)
   + Yahoo!:
   - Fix a double-free in profile/picture loading code.
   (pidgin.im#15053)
   - Fix retrieving server-side buddy aliases.
   (pidgin.im#15381)
   + Plugins:
   - The Voice/Video Settings plugin supports using the
   sndio GStreamer backends. (pidgin.im#14414)
   - Fix a crash in the Contact Availability Detection
   plugin. (pidgin.im#15327)
   - Make the Message Notification plugin more friendly to
   non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts' +no_x11 variant.
   + Windows-Specific Changes:
   - Compile with secure flags (pidgin.im#15290)
   - Installer downloads GTK+ Runtime and Debug Symbols
   more securely. (pidgin.im#15277)
   - Updates to a number of dependencies, some of which
   have security related fixes. (pidgin.im#14571,
   pidgin.im#15285, pidgin.im#15286) . ATK 1.32.0-2 . Cyrus
   SASL 2.1.25 . expat 2.1.0-1 . freetype 2.4.10-1 . gettext
   0.18.1.1-2 . Glib 2.28.8-1 . libpng 1.4.12-1 . libxml2
   2.9.0-1 . NSS 3.13.6 and NSPR 4.9.2 . Pango 1.29.4-1 . SILC
   1.1.10 . zlib 1.2.5-2
   - Patch libmeanwhile (sametime library) to fix crash.
   (pidgin.im#12637)


Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE 12.3:

      zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-231

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64):

      finch-2.10.7-4.4.1
      finch-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1
      finch-devel-2.10.7-4.4.1
      libpurple-2.10.7-4.4.1
      libpurple-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1
      libpurple-devel-2.10.7-4.4.1
      libpurple-meanwhile-2.10.7-4.4.1
      libpurple-meanwhile-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1
      libpurple-tcl-2.10.7-4.4.1
      libpurple-tcl-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1
      pidgin-2.10.7-4.4.1
      pidgin-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1
      pidgin-debugsource-2.10.7-4.4.1
      pidgin-devel-2.10.7-4.4.1

   - openSUSE 12.3 (noarch):

      libpurple-branding-upstream-2.10.7-4.4.1
      libpurple-lang-2.10.7-4.4.1


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0271.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0272.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0273.html
   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0274.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/804742
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/806975