SuSE Update for pidgin openSUSE-SU-2013:0405-1 (pidgin)

Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
pidgin was updated to fix security issues: - Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values. (CVE-2013-0274) - Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends us an abnormally long user ID. (CVE-2013-0273) - Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could potentially send specially crafted data that could overflow a buffer and lead to a crash or remote code execution.(CVE-2013-0272) - Fix a bug where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local file path to be written to. (CVE-2013-0271)
Affected
pidgin on openSUSE 12.1
References