SUSE: 2012:0782-1 Important: Pidgin Remote Triggering Crashes Fixed

Various remote triggerable crashes in pidgin have been fixed: * CVE-2012-1178: In some situations the MSN server sends text that isn't UTF-8 encoded, and Pidgin fails to verify the text's encoding. In some cases this can lead to a crash when attempting to display the text (). * CVE-2012-1178/CVE-2012-2318: Incoming messages with certain characters or character encodings can cause clients to crash. * CVE-2012-2214: A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2: zypper in -t patch sdksp1-finch-6294