Fedora 10: FEDORA-2009-9356 Critical: Libsilc Stack Corruption Fix

SILC Client Library libraries for clients to connect to SILC networks.

SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides

secure conferencing services on the Internet over insecure channel.

ChangeLog:

* Fri Sep 4 2009 Stu Tomlinson 1.1.8-7

- Backport patch to fix stack corruption (CVE-2008-7160) (#521256)

* Fri Sep 4 2009 Stu Tomlinson 1.1.8-6

- Backport patch to fix additional string format vulnerabilities (#515648)

* Wed Aug 5 2009 Stu Tomlinson 1.1.8-5

- Backport patch to fix string format vulnerability (#515648)

* Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.1.8-4

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.1.8-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Dec 23 2008 Stu Tomlinson 1.1.8-2

- Fix building with libtool 2.2

* Wed Dec 3 2008 Stu Tomlinson 1.1.8-1

- Update to 1.1.8

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #515648 - libsilc: format string vulnerability in client entry handling

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515648

[ 2 ] Bug #521256 - CVE-2008-7160 libsilc: stack corruption in SilcHttpServer on 64bit archs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521256

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update libsilc' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

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