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Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8874 (pidgin)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pidgin announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8874.
Insight
Insight
Update Information: 2.6.1 fixes an issue where pidgin can crash if you are sent a certain type of URL over Yahoo. ChangeLog: * Wed Aug 19 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.1-1 - 2.6.1: Fix a crash when some users send you a link in a Yahoo IM * Tue Aug 18 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-1 - CVE-2009-2694 - Voice and Video support via farsight2 (Fedora 11+) - Numerous other bug fixes * Thu Aug 6 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.11.20090812 - new snapshot at the request of maiku * Thu Aug 6 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.10.20090806 - new snapshot - theoretically better sound quality in voice chat * Tue Aug 4 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.9.20090804 - new snapshot
Solution
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update pidgin' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-8874