openSUSE Security Update: pidgin: 2.10.7 update to fix security issues and bugs ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:0511-1 Rating: important References: #804742 #806975 Cross-References: CVE-2013-0271 CVE-2013-0272 CVE-2013-0273 CVE-2013-0274 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available. Description: Pidgin was updated to 2.10.7 to fix various security issues and the bug that IRC did not work at all in 12.3. Changes: - Add pidgin-irc-sasl.patch: link irc module to SASL. Allows the IRC module to be loaded (bnc#806975). - Update to version 2.10.7 (bnc#804742): + Alien hatchery: - No changes + General: - The configure script will now exit with status 1 when specifying invalid protocol plugins using the --with-static-prpls and --with-dynamic-prpls arguments. (pidgin.im#15316) + libpurple: - Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values. (CVE-2013-0274) - Don't link directly to libgcrypt when building with GnuTLS support. (pidgin.im#15329) - Fix UPnP mappings on routers that return empty <URLBase/> elements in their response. (pidgin.im#15373) - Tcl plugin uses saner, race-free plugin loading. - Fix the Tcl signals-test plugin for savedstatus-changed. (pidgin.im#15443) + Pidgin: - Make Pidgin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts' +no_x11 variant. + Gadu-Gadu: - Fix a crash at startup with large contact list. Avatar support for buddies will be disabled until 3.0.0. (pidgin.im#15226, pidgin.im#14305) + IRC: - Support for SASL authentication. (pidgin.im#13270) - Print topic setter information at channel join. (pidgin.im#13317) + MSN: - Fix SSL certificate issue when signing into MSN for some users. - Fix a crash when removing a user before its icon is loaded. (pidgin.im#15217) + MXit: - Fix a bug where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local file path to be written to. (CVE-2013-0271) - Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could potentially send specially crafted data that could overflow a buffer and lead to a crash or remote code execution. (CVE-2013-0272) - Display farewell messages in a different colour to distinguish them from normal messages. - Add support for typing notification. - Add support for the Relationship Status profile attribute. - Remove all reference to Hidden Number. - Ignore new invites to join a GroupChat if you're already joined, or still have a pending invite. - The buddy's name was not centered vertically in the buddy-list if they did not have a status-message or mood set. - Fix decoding of font-size changes in the markup of received messages. - Increase the maximum file size that can be transferred to 1 MB. - When setting an avatar image, no longer downscale it to 96x96. + Sametime: - Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends us an abnormally long user ID. (CVE-2013-0273) + Yahoo!: - Fix a double-free in profile/picture loading code. (pidgin.im#15053) - Fix retrieving server-side buddy aliases. (pidgin.im#15381) + Plugins: - The Voice/Video Settings plugin supports using the sndio GStreamer backends. (pidgin.im#14414) - Fix a crash in the Contact Availability Detection plugin. (pidgin.im#15327) - Make the Message Notification plugin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts' +no_x11 variant. + Windows-Specific Changes: - Compile with secure flags (pidgin.im#15290) - Installer downloads GTK+ Runtime and Debug Symbols more securely. (pidgin.im#15277) - Updates to a number of dependencies, some of which have security related fixes. (pidgin.im#14571, pidgin.im#15285, pidgin.im#15286) . ATK 1.32.0-2 . Cyrus SASL 2.1.25 . expat 2.1.0-1 . freetype 2.4.10-1 . gettext 0.18.1.1-2 . Glib 2.28.8-1 . libpng 1.4.12-1 . libxml2 2.9.0-1 . NSS 3.13.6 and NSPR 4.9.2 . Pango 1.29.4-1 . SILC 1.1.10 . zlib 1.2.5-2 - Patch libmeanwhile (sametime library) to fix crash. (pidgin.im#12637) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-231 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64): finch-2.10.7-4.4.1 finch-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1 finch-devel-2.10.7-4.4.1 libpurple-2.10.7-4.4.1 libpurple-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1 libpurple-devel-2.10.7-4.4.1 libpurple-meanwhile-2.10.7-4.4.1 libpurple-meanwhile-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1 libpurple-tcl-2.10.7-4.4.1 libpurple-tcl-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1 pidgin-2.10.7-4.4.1 pidgin-debuginfo-2.10.7-4.4.1 pidgin-debugsource-2.10.7-4.4.1 pidgin-devel-2.10.7-4.4.1 - openSUSE 12.3 (noarch): libpurple-branding-upstream-2.10.7-4.4.1 libpurple-lang-2.10.7-4.4.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0271.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0272.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0273.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0274.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/804742 https://bugzilla.novell.com/806975 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security-announce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security-announce+help@opensuse.org