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

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.. SUSE Security Update: Security update for finch, libpurple and pidgin ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0782-1 Rating: important References: #752275 #760890 #761155 Affected Products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 SLE SDK 10 SP4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. Description: 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 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1: zypper in -t patch sdksp1-finch-6294 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2: zypper in -t patchsledsp1-finch-6294 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1: zypper in -t patch sledsp1-finch-6294 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64): finch-2.6.6-0.15.1 finch-devel-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-devel-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-lang-2.6.6-0.15.1 pidgin-2.6.6-0.15.1 pidgin-devel-2.6.6-0.15.1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64): finch-2.6.6-0.15.1 finch-devel-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-devel-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-lang-2.6.6-0.15.1 pidgin-2.6.6-0.15.1 pidgin-devel-2.6.6-0.15.1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64): finch-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-lang-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-meanwhile-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-0.15.1 pidgin-2.6.6-0.15.1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 (i586 x86_64): finch-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-lang-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-meanwhile-2.6.6-0.15.1 libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-0.15.1 pidgin-2.6.6-0.15.1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64): finch-2.6.6-0.16.1 libpurple-2.6.6-0.16.1 pidgin-2.6.6-0.16.1 - SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64): finch-2.6.6-0.16.1 finch-devel-2.6.6-0.16.1 libpurple-2.6.6-0.16.1 libpurple-devel-2.6.6-0.16.1 pidgin-2.6.6-0.16.1 pidgin-devel-2.6.6-0.16.1 References: . Critical patch released for finch, libpurple, and pidgin fixing remote-triggered crash vulnerabilities. Update immediately.. SUSE Linux, Pidgin Update, Finch Security, Libpurple Patch, SUSE Security. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jun 22, 2012 •Important SuSE