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A gaim security update is available for Fedora Core 2

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-298
2005-04-05
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : gaim
Version : 1.2.1
Release : 1.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.



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Update Information:

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog
gaim-1.2.1 resolves CAN-2005-0965 and CAN-2005-0966 as well as some crashes in the jabber and yahoo protocols. Read upstream's pages above for more details.

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* Sun Apr 3 2005 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> 1:1.2.1-1
- update to 1.2.1 (minor bug fixes)

* Fri Mar 18 2005 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> 1:1.2.0-1
- update to 1.2.0 (minor bug fixes)

* Mon Mar 7 2005 Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com> 1:1.1.4-5
- Copy before modifying prefs.xml

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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

57065abd3a48d2936e7830aa47346e37 SRPMS/gaim-1.2.1-1.fc2.src.rpm
e183f42e2f2830994a2ed531ffbc42ba x86_64/gaim-1.2.1-1.fc2.x86_64.rpm
4c7f7bbd7841189893f87a94645026a5
x86_64/debug/gaim-debuginfo-1.2.1-1.fc2.x86_64.rpm
48b62b963e5499285d81c91a4b8c5df0 i386/gaim-1.2.1-1.fc2.i386.rpm
8b7d6a24e0c45da8a916e010649121c3
i386/debug/gaim-debuginfo-1.2.1-1.fc2.i386.rpm

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