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
   https://login.microfocus.com/nidp/app/login
   https://login.microfocus.com/nidp/app/login