news 28 Posted March 16, 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] pidgin (SSA:2017-074-01) New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a minor security issue (out of bounds memory read in purple_markup_unescape_entity). For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2640 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating 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 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-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-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-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-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 13.0 package: d20c98688eb66e29ca9ba6996da24367 pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.0.txz Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 9601e501acf501757c3972debc046c61 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz Slackware 13.1 package: 0b719a9ebbe7ef63aa91cfb56d896fbd pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: c3f9f59aaada4ea092e953735e53a10d pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware 13.37 package: 3b7a265bb941d7d02bb2f8579e52bcd8 pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 1e58e64fc40ab5048b2dd5c4502373ec pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz Slackware 14.0 package: 4e1a85f3b6cd2d55ee03e5ffbebd9211 pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 1d0e93fc9820f17a71eefd0cd083f769 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 package: 81d89d2e087346464cfd5dd6dbcf2a43 pidgin-2.12.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 2dd13fb52cf1f3e21f61244af88a9dd8 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware 14.2 package: 4deb19e7518f75f1f349ee78ec31082f pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 82a56eb89da558a75d23fbf7d852c4f7 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz Slackware -current package: b68274158984e8162df4affaa383487f xap/pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 3f41d09769cd154030e6f23ab586d8b9 xap/pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
