Synopsis:	Moderate: pidgin security update
Issue date:	2010-11-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-3711

Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way Pidgin
handled Base64 decoding. A remote attacker could use these flaws to 
crash Pidgin if the target Pidgin user was using the Yahoo! Messenger 
Protocol, MSN, MySpace, or Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol 
(XMPP) protocol plug-ins, or using the Microsoft NT LAN Manager (NTLM) 
protocol for authentication. (CVE-2010-3711)

Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect.

SL 6.x

      SRPMS:
pidgin-2.6.6-6.el6_0.src.rpm
      i386:
finch-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
finch-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
libpurple-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
pidgin-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
pidgin-docs-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
      x86_64:
finch-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
finch-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
finch-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
finch-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
libpurple-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.i686.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-docs-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.6.6-6.el6_0.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson