These are all instant messaging packages; pidgin is a client, libpurple is a set of libraries that speak many protocols, and finch is a set of simple scripts to use libpurple directly. (In spite of the name, I doubt libPURPLE decodes Japanese diplomatic messages.) We wouldn't install these; for us, N/A. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization, z/VM and z/Linux, Wells Fargo (415) 477-6891 office   (415) 516-7913 cell 201 3rd St., MAC A0187-050, San Francisco, CA 94103 4155167913@vtext.com or http://www.vtext.com text paging (but cell is safer) Company policy requires:  This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.  If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein.  If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message.  Thank you for your cooperation. -----Original Message----- From: opensuse-security@opensuse.org [mailto:opensuse-security@opensuse.org] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 10:09 AM To: opensuse-security-announce@opensuse.org Subject: [security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0782-1: important: Security update for finch, libpurple and pidgin SUSE Security Update: Security update for finch, libpurple and pidgin ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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=1444b130f542f9e056af8af621... http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=b0914368d9cc2257e01e528c5f... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security-announce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security-announce+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-security+owner@opensuse.org