Pidgin 2.10.10 recently released, is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems, and it’s compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MXit, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.
Pidgin 2.10.10 update
- Check the basic constraints extension when validating SSL/TLS certificates. This fixes a security hole that allowed a malicious man-in-the-middle to impersonate an IM server or any other https endpoint. This affected both the NSS and GnuTLS plugins
- Allow and prefer TLS 1.2 and 1.1 when using the NSS plugin for SSL
- Fix login when using the GnuTLS library for TLS connections
- Fix a possible leak of unencrypted data when using /me command with OTR
- Fix potential remote crash parsing a malformed emoticon response
- Fix potential information leak where a malicious XMPP server and possibly even a malicious remote user could create a carefully crafted XMPP message that causes libpurple to send an XMPP message containing arbitrary memory
- Fix Facebook XMPP roster quirks
Install Pidgin 2.10.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 & Ubuntu 14.10
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin wget -O pidgin-2.10.10.tar.bz2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/Pidgin/2.10.10/pidgin-2.10.10.tar.bz2/download tar -xjvf pidgin-2.10.10.tar.bz2 cd pidgin-2.10.10/ ./configure make sudo make installcomments powered by Disqus