Fedora: gaim security issues (Core 2)

August 25, 2004

0.82 update contains many bug and security improvements.

Summary

Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging

protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!,

MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, 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.

Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many

unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins.

Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc.,

Microsoft Corporation, or Yahoo! Inc. or other messaging service

providers.

Update Information:

0.82 update contains many bug and security improvements.

* Wed Aug 25 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> 0.82-0.FC2

- FC2 update

* Wed Aug 25 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> 0.82-1

- Update to 0.82 resolves several security issues and bugs CAN-2004-0500, CAN-2004-0754, CAN-2004-0784, CAN-2004-0785 More details at

This update can be downloaded from:

b541c49b833569299e0493ee217cfbdf SRPMS/gaim-0.82-0.FC2.src.rpm 195b5fd6dc6b57b5efa7a0cb48ee784a x86_64/gaim-0.82-0.FC2.x86_64.rpm 54b376b2755796b1e3e98445db402f7b x86_64/debug/gaim-debuginfo-0.82-0.FC2.x86_64.rpm 424761cc496a309f0a11714bf49d15f3 i386/gaim-0.82-0.FC2.i386.rpm 8eea8d251a8aa321a46668f05f6df10a i386/debug/gaim-debuginfo-0.82-0.FC2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-279 2004-08-26 Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : gaim Version : 0.82 Release : 0.FC2 Summary : A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client Description : Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, 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. Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins. Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, or Yahoo! Inc. or other messaging service providers.