[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0782-1: important: Security update for finch, libpurple and pidgin

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for finch, libpurple and pidgin

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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

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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 patch sledsp1-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:

 

https://bugzilla.novell.com/752275

https://bugzilla.novell.com/760890

https://bugzilla.novell.com/761155

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=1444b130f542f9e056af8af62199bd10

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=b0914368d9cc2257e01e528c5ffb01e8

 

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