openSUSE-SU-2017:0973-1

Описание

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).