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Fedora: 2009-7013 Security Update Addressing GlusterFS Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 3, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch for irssi in Fedora 11 corrects boundary mistake. Implement solution for CVE-2009-1959 and improve your environment.

Summary

Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode

frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer

being maintained.

ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 23 2009 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala - 0.8.13-3

- Resolve CVE-2009-1959

* Fri May 1 2009 Marek Mahut - 0.8.13-1

- Upstream release

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #504554 - CVE-2009-1959 irssi: off-by-one error in the event_wallops

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504554

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

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

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

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

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Name: irssi
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.8.13
Release: 3.fc11
Summary: Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting

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