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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8815
2009-08-20 20:34:04
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Name        : neon
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 0.28.6
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://www.webdav.org/neon/
Summary     : An HTTP and WebDAV client library
Description :
neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface;
providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along
with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling.  neon
supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and
Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.

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Update Information:

This update includes the latest release of neon, version 0.28.6.    This fixes
two security issues:    * the "billion laughs" attack against expat could allow
a Denial of Service attack by a malicious server. (CVE-2009-2473)    * an
embedded NUL byte in a certificate subject name could allow an undetected MITM
attack against an SSL server if a trusted CA issues such a cert.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 19 2009 Joe Orton  0.28.6-1
- update to 0.26.1
* Thu Jul  9 2009 Joe Orton  0.28.5-1
- update to 0.28.5 (#502451, #491839)
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update neon' 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/
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Fedora 11 Update: neon-0.28.6-1.fc11

August 20, 2009
This update includes the latest release of neon, version 0.28.6

Summary

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface;

providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along

with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon

supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and

Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.

Update Information:

This update includes the latest release of neon, version 0.28.6. This fixes two security issues: * the "billion laughs" attack against expat could allow a Denial of Service attack by a malicious server. (CVE-2009-2473) * an embedded NUL byte in a certificate subject name could allow an undetected MITM attack against an SSL server if a trusted CA issues such a cert.

Change Log

* Wed Aug 19 2009 Joe Orton 0.28.6-1 - update to 0.26.1 * Thu Jul 9 2009 Joe Orton 0.28.5-1 - update to 0.28.5 (#502451, #491839)

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8815 2009-08-20 20:34:04 Name : neon Product : Fedora 11 Version : 0.28.6 Release : 1.fc11 URL : http://www.webdav.org/neon/ Summary : An HTTP and WebDAV client library Description : neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface; providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update neon' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : neon
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 0.28.6
Release : 1.fc11
URL : http://www.webdav.org/neon/
Summary : An HTTP and WebDAV client library

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