Security update for finch, libpurple and pidgin
SUSE Security Update: Security update for finch, libpurple and pidgin
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.
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2012:0782-1 |
| Rating: | important |
| References: | #752275 #760890 #761155 |
| Affected Products: |
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.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=1444b130f542f9e056af8af62199bd10
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=b0914368d9cc2257e01e528c5ffb01e8