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openSUSE Leap 42.2 Advisory: 2017:0973-1 Important: Pidgin Memory Read

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical patch for Pidgin resolves potential vulnerability linked to outside memory access in openSUSE. Ensure safety with the newest updates.
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Description

This update for pidgin to version 2.12.0 fixes the following issues:

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2017-2640: Out of bounds memory read in

purple_markup_unescape_entity (boo#1028835).

These non-security issues were fixed:

+ libpurple:

- Fix the use of uninitialised memory if running non-debug-enabled

versions of glib.

- Update AIM dev and dist ID's to new ones that were assigned by AOL.

- TLS certificate verification now uses SHA-256 checksums.

- Fix the SASL external auth for Freenode (boo#1009974).

- Remove the MSN protocol plugin. It has been unusable and dormant for

some time.

- Remove the Mxit protocol plugin. The service was closed at the end

ofSeptember 2016.

- Remove the MySpaceIM protocol plugin. The service has been defunct for

a long time (pidgin.im#15356).

- Remove the Yahoo! protocol plugin. Yahoo has completely reimplemented

their protocol, so this version is no...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-457=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

libpurple-branding-openSUSE-42.2-3.3.2

libpurple-branding-upstream-2.12.0-8.6.1

libpurple-lang-2.12.0-8.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

finch-2.12.0-8.6.1

finch-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1

finch-devel-2.12.0-8.6.1

libpurple-2.12.0-8.6.1

libpurple-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1

libpurple-devel-2.12.0-8.6.1

libpurple-plugin-sametime-2.12.0-8.6.1

libpurple-plugin-sametime-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1

libpurple-tcl-2.12.0-8.6.1

libpurple-tcl-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1

pidgin-2.12.0-8.6.1

pidgin-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1

pidgin-debugsource-2.12.0-8.6.1

pidgin-devel-2.12.0-8.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2640.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009974

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1028835

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0973-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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