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Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8874 (pidgin)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Fedora Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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

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