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Slackware: 2009-290-02 Moderate: Remote Crash Issue In Pidgin

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2009
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Recent updates for pidgin have been launched for Slackware to fix a critical remote crash vulnerability. Versions across the board can now be updated.
New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.6.3-i486-1_slack13.0.txz: This update fixes an issue where a remote user can cause libpurple-based clients to crash. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3615 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue package update slackware remote crash 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 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 12.0 package: 2ebd4a84902d4818abf41ab8bbab51a2 pidgin-2.6.3-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package: defa9ff74babdc19b387bfbb3484390b pidgin-2.6.3-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: a607298ba37e4c36209cc0f0c0746503 pidgin-2.6.3-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 package: 7680b89972f3746f95f3e89721bc5456 pidgin-2.6.3-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 5b601d403720ca39836e27b13a3eb4aa pidgin-2.6.3-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware -current package: fe3e8eb2bb9cf6628f89a339e24b1f61 pidgin-2.6.3-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 9ff24734eafd69437d240154c5e5d8fb pidgin-2.6.3-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pidgin-2.6.3-i486-1_slack13.0.txz