RHSA-2008:0584High

Red Hat Security Advisory: pidgin security and bug fix update

Published
July 9, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2008-2927 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-2927 — pidgin MSN integer overflow

🎯 Affected products116

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • finch-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • finch-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • finch-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • finch-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • finch-devel-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • finch-devel-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • finch-devel-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • finch-devel-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • libpurple-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • libpurple-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • libpurple-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • libpurple-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • libpurple-devel-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • libpurple-devel-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • libpurple-devel-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • libpurple-devel-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • libpurple-perl-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • libpurple-perl-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • libpurple-perl-0:2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

🔗 References (7)