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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-2657
2009-03-13 18:03:59
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Name        : glib2
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 2.18.4
Release     : 2.fc10
URL         : https://www.gtk.org/
Summary     : A library of handy utility functions
Description :
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis
for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure
handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime
functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an
object system.

This package provides version 2 of GLib.

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Update Information:

This update fixes possible integer overflows in the base64 handling code. This
has been reported in CVE-2008-4316.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 12 2009 Matthias Clasen  - 2.18.4-2
- Fix integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. CVE-2008-4316
* Fri Jan  9 2009 Matthias Clasen  - 2.18.4-1
- Update to 2.18.4
* Mon Nov 24 2008 Matthias Clasen  - 2.18.3-2
- Update to 2.18.3
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #474770 - CVE-2008-4316 glib2: integer overflows in the base64 handling functions (oCERT-2008-015)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474770
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update glib2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

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