openSUSE Security Update: Security update for pidgin ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0973-1 Rating: important References: #1009974 #1028835 Cross-References: CVE-2017-2640 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available. Description: This update for pidgin to version 2.12.0 fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-2640: Out of bounds memory read in purple_markup_unescape_entity (boo#1028835). These non-security issues were fixed: + libpurple: - Fix the use of uninitialised memory if running non-debug-enabled versions of glib. - Update AIM dev and dist ID's to new ones that were assigned by AOL. - TLS certificate verification now uses SHA-256 checksums. - Fix the SASL external auth for Freenode (boo#1009974). - Remove the MSN protocol plugin. It has been unusable and dormant for some time. - Remove the Mxit protocol plugin. The service was closed at the end ofSeptember 2016. - Remove the MySpaceIM protocol plugin. The service has been defunct for a long time (pidgin.im#15356). - Remove the Yahoo! protocol plugin. Yahoo has completely reimplemented their protocol, so this version is no longer operable as of August 5th, 2016. - Remove the Facebook (XMPP) account option. According to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat the XMPP Chat API service ended April 30th, 2015. - Fix gnutls certificate validation errors that mainly affected Google. + General: - Replace instances of d.pidgin.im with developer.pidgin.im and update the urls to use https (pidgin.im#17036). + IRC: - Fix an issue of messages being silently cut off at 500 characters. Large messages are now split into parts and sent one by one (pidgin.im#4753). Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-457=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch): libpurple-branding-openSUSE-42.2-3.3.2 libpurple-branding-upstream-2.12.0-8.6.1 libpurple-lang-2.12.0-8.6.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64): finch-2.12.0-8.6.1 finch-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1 finch-devel-2.12.0-8.6.1 libpurple-2.12.0-8.6.1 libpurple-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1 libpurple-devel-2.12.0-8.6.1 libpurple-plugin-sametime-2.12.0-8.6.1 libpurple-plugin-sametime-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1 libpurple-tcl-2.12.0-8.6.1 libpurple-tcl-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1 pidgin-2.12.0-8.6.1 pidgin-debuginfo-2.12.0-8.6.1 pidgin-debugsource-2.12.0-8.6.1 pidgin-devel-2.12.0-8.6.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2640.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009974 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1028835