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Slackware 12.x: 2009-231-02 Critical: Pidgin Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2009
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Recent package updates address a significant security vulnerability in Slackware versions 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current. It's essential to upgrade immediately.
New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.5.9-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz: This update fixes a bug in Pidgin's MSN protocol implementation that can allow a remote attacker to send a malicious MSN message to a Pidgin user, which will possibly cause arbitrary code to be executed as that user. This issue was discovered by Federico Muttis of Core Security Technologies. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2694 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update remote code execution Slackware arbitrary code 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: 3ce9ef2fb489919027f5fd48aecfe16e pidgin-2.5.9-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package: ab5b36db9e7f97b845672d030b64b999 pidgin-2.5.9-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: befadfc8dde193789bcee91f7f33f8ba pidgin-2.5.9-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware -current package: 4bc5945ad08e4fa5ebefcd1c5fc9c932 pidgin-2.5.9-i486-1.txz
Slackware64 -current package: 0a18668ccb5cd223e56789c871997769 pidgin-2.5.9-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update remote code execution Slackware arbitrary code Pidgin

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pidgin-2.5.9-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz