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Slackware 12.2: 2009-146-01 Critical: Pidgin Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2009
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Recent updates for Pidgin available for Slackware, addressing vulnerabilities and improving overall system security and reliability.
New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.5.6-i486-1_slack12.2.txz: Upgraded to pidgin-2.5.6. This version fixes security issues that could lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code as the user running Pidgin. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1373 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1374 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1375 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1376 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution slackware pidgin

Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
Updated package for Slackware 12.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 12.0 package: 8890772717a70b042f5c76ae4e4ab6b0 pidgin-2.5.6-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package: 3d7e918ff1d3eef13107472f313978a4 pidgin-2.5.6-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: 144a78d203391bd7af7aac36d53061f3 pidgin-2.5.6-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware -current package: 0b2aa951d3f6b9f8d5a9ac7e8d28c7a6 pidgin-2.5.6-i486-1.txz
Slackware64 -current package: e79c2f0466d4714951a7f53f04740695 pidgin-2.5.6-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory critical code execution slackware pidgin

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pidgin-2.5.6-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz