openSUSE Security Update: pidgin (CVE-2012-1178) ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0905-1 Rating: moderate References: #752275 Cross-References: CVE-2012-1178 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.1 openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: Changes in pidgin: - Fixing bnc#752275, CVE-2012-1178: Pidgin fails to verify the text's utf-8 encoding Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-432 - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-432 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64): finch-2.10.1-8.15.1 finch-debuginfo-2.10.1-8.15.1 finch-devel-2.10.1-8.15.1 libpurple-2.10.1-8.15.1 libpurple-debuginfo-2.10.1-8.15.1 libpurple-devel-2.10.1-8.15.1 libpurple-meanwhile-2.10.1-8.15.1 libpurple-meanwhile-debuginfo-2.10.1-8.15.1 libpurple-tcl-2.10.1-8.15.1 libpurple-tcl-debuginfo-2.10.1-8.15.1 pidgin-2.10.1-8.15.1 pidgin-debuginfo-2.10.1-8.15.1 pidgin-debugsource-2.10.1-8.15.1 pidgin-devel-2.10.1-8.15.1 pidgin-evolution-2.10.1-8.15.1 pidgin-evolution-debuginfo-2.10.1-8.15.1 - openSUSE 12.1 (noarch): libpurple-branding-upstream-2.10.1-8.15.1 libpurple-lang-2.10.1-8.15.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): finch-2.7.10-4.50.1 finch-debuginfo-2.7.10-4.50.1 finch-devel-2.7.10-4.50.1 libpurple-2.7.10-4.50.1 libpurple-debuginfo-2.7.10-4.50.1 libpurple-devel-2.7.10-4.50.1 libpurple-meanwhile-2.7.10-4.50.1 libpurple-meanwhile-debuginfo-2.7.10-4.50.1 libpurple-tcl-2.7.10-4.50.1 libpurple-tcl-debuginfo-2.7.10-4.50.1 pidgin-2.7.10-4.50.1 pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.10-4.50.1 pidgin-debugsource-2.7.10-4.50.1 pidgin-devel-2.7.10-4.50.1 pidgin-evolution-2.7.10-4.50.1 pidgin-evolution-debuginfo-2.7.10-4.50.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (noarch): libpurple-lang-2.7.10-4.50.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1178.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/752275