Scientific Linux Update: Moderate Pidgin DoS Fix for SL4.x and SL5.x

Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:48:28 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
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From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: pidgin on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: pidgin security and bug fix update
Issue date:	2009-07-02
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-1889

A denial of service flaw was found in the Pidgin OSCAR protocol
implementation. If a remote ICQ user sent a web message to a local
Pidgin user using this protocol, it would cause excessive memory usage,
leading to a denial of service (Pidgin crash). (CVE-2009-1889)

These updated packages also fix the following bug:

* the Yahoo! Messenger Protocol changed, making it incompatible (and
unusable) with Pidgin versions prior to 2.5.7. This update provides
Pidgin 2.5.8, which implements version 16 of the Yahoo! Messenger
Protocol, which resolves this issue.

Note: These packages upgrade Pidgin to version 2.5.8.

Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
pidgin-2.5.8-1.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
finch-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
pidgin-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.5.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
finch-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.5.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
pidgin-2.5.8-1.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
finch-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
finch-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
finch-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.5.8-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson