security review and patches for libpurple

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:

> Jacob Appelbaum spake unto us the following wisdom:
>>> With that in mind, I'd like to ask again if there are any objections
>>> to my committing these patches to ipp without embargo or a coordinated
>>> release.  If not, I will land them some time tomorrow.  If anyone even
>>> simply thinks we should wait a few days or get additional input before
>>> landing them, that's fine, too.
>> 
>> I would really strongly encourage you to co-ordinate with the Adium
>> folks. It seems to me that they're behind on libpurple updates and any
>> new security releases that don't go into Adium may cause Mac OS X users
>> major trouble.
> 
> I appreciate that input.  There are several Adium developers on the
> security at pidgin.im contact list, so they are in the loop on this.
> 

Indeed. This patch will be included in Adium 1.4.3b2 which will land soon after it is committed upstream. We hope to have the 1.4.3 release follow soon thereafter. 

-Evan


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