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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] pidgin (SSA:2011-070-02)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:02:45 -0800 (PST)
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[slackware-security]  pidgin (SSA:2011-070-02)

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1,
and -current to fix security issues.


Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack13.1.txz:  Upgraded.
  Fixed denials of service caused by NULL pointer dereferences due to
  improper handling of malformed YMSG packets.
  For more information, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1091
  (* Security fix *)
+--------------------------+


Where to find the 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
(http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project!  :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 12.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack13.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.11-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack13.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.11-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/pidgin-2.7.11-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
+-------------+

Slackware 12.0 package:
9dc4163e9478864075132c118ff8d472  pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz

Slackware 12.1 package:
2452d9ce458f389cea87bb95be881219  pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz

Slackware 12.2 package:
9756d4b8041a45c53180204e3c96895b  pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz

Slackware 13.0 package:
25e6a0547480a811b161c41d8c4ae37a  pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack13.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 13.0 package:
e93bd1b084bcf1e40c91dd6f76572280  pidgin-2.7.11-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz

Slackware 13.1 package:
afc35233610a5006c5bb68a98f69ee37  pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack13.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 13.1 package:
b739ca36936a9c4d8340302cccc6af7e  pidgin-2.7.11-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz

Slackware -current package:
4f6b03e6e2ab6211a8877e6a9263fc37  pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
4ae470c38ce62b9a580cbc144a04a5de  pidgin-2.7.11-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
+------------------------+

Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1_slack13.1.txz


+-----+

Slackware Linux Security Team
http://slackware.com/gpg-key
security@slackware.com

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