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Slackware 12.x-13.1 Pidgin DoS Security Update Critical Fix

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2010
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Fresh pidgin updates released for Slackware address denial of service vulnerabilities and improve overall security.
New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses some denial of service bugs. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3711 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical software update 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 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 12.0 package: 7758d57ee22894649a7c3a295dc7d440 pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package: 56c2d7b570ad1094c97ccabf94cd25f4 pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: deb6dc3d50a06e3e5b9d76094ad971ec pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 package: b6c8f0c133593fb2635e3a7c4a1534ab pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 6f962dabf4d8ee0cd2904499fb2513f0 pidgin-2.7.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: b11028e0456e6ce35b63cd5462db2c9b pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 842fb5f95140cd5a9c59e92afee40511 pidgin-2.7.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 8ca20dec594fc997b42797758a354fbe xap/pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d8a9c077ecf6011a9ce1ecb01f690485 xap/pidgin-2.7.5-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical software update slackware pidgin

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz

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