Package pidgin: Information

    Source package: pidgin
    Version: 2.5.6-alt0.M40.1
    Build time:  May 23, 2009, 03:48 AM
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    Home page: http://pidgin.im

    License: GPL
    Summary: A GTK+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client
    Description: 
    Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging
    protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu,
    ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and
    Zephyr.  These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to
    use design.  To use a protocol, just add an account using the
    account editor.
    
    Pidgin supports many common features of other clients, as well as many
    unique features, such as perl scripting, TCL scripting and C plugins.
    
    Pidgin is not affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc.,
    Microsoft Corporation, Yahoo! Inc., or ICQ Inc.

    List of rpms provided by this srpm:
    finch (x86_64, i586)
    finch-devel (x86_64, i586)
    libpurple (x86_64, i586)
    libpurple-dbus (x86_64, i586)
    libpurple-devel (x86_64, i586)
    pidgin (x86_64, i586)
    pidgin-devel (x86_64, i586)
    pidgin-gevolution (x86_64, i586)
    pidgin-relnot (x86_64, i586)

    Maintainer: Alexey Shabalin



      1. libSM-devel
      2. GConf
      3. libxml2-devel >= 2.6.0
      4. libXScrnSaver-devel
      5. libdbus-devel >= 0.35
      6. libdbus-glib-devel >= 0.35
      7. libgpg-error
      8. glib2-devel
      9. libgtk+2-devel
      10. desktop-file-utils
      11. libgtkspell-devel >= 2.0.2
      12. doxygen
      13. libavahi-devel
      14. libavahi-glib-devel
      15. libncurses-devel
      16. libncursesw-devel
      17. libidn-devel
      18. graphviz
      19. gstreamer-devel
      20. libnspr-devel
      21. libnss-devel
      22. ca-certificates
      23. evolution-data-server-devel
      24. python-modules-encodings
      25. xorg-cf-files
      26. gcc-c++
      27. imake
      28. libpango-devel >= 1.4.0
      29. libstartup-notification-devel >= 0.5
      30. libsqlite3-devel >= 3.3

    Last changed


    May 22, 2009 Michael Shigorin 2.5.6-alt0.M40.1
    - built for M40
      + removed external libgadu build dependency
    May 22, 2009 Michael Shigorin 2.5.6-alt0.M41.1
    - built for M41
    May 22, 2009 Michael Shigorin 2.5.6-alt1
    - 2.5.6:
      + CVE-2009-1373: XMPP SOCKS5 stream server buffer overflow
      + CVE-2009-1374: remote DoS with a special QQ packet
      + CVE-2009-1375: PurpleCircBuffer (XMPP/Sametime) BoF
      + CVE-2009-1376: buffer overflow via specially crafted SLP
        message due to incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927
    - thanks crux@ for notification (fixes: #20141)