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Fedora Core 2: 2004-208 Priority: Im-Sdk Unsafe File Management

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The im-switch that is included in the Fedora Core iiimf-x package has been fixed to take appropriate precautions when generating temporary files.

Summary

IIIMF is a next generation multilingual Unicode input method framework,

which is a replacement of existing input method frameworks such as XIM.

This IIIMF implementation includes Language Engines for various Asian

languages allowing one to switch between inputting complex charactersin a number of different languages in supported applications.

Update Information:

The im-switch that is included in the Fedora Core iiimf-x package has been fixed to take appropriate precautions when generating temporary files.

* Mon Jul 05 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 1:11.4-46.1.svn1587

- fix im-switch to use mktemp to generate temp file securely (Tatsuo Sekine, 126940)

This update can be downloaded from:


24099c1a908d3cf91fd3fcd0cf819702 SRPMS/im-sdk-11.4-46.1.svn1587.src.rpm 220fff6d7c7d6ae6c6959e54aadb6a97 x86_64/iiimf-csconv-11.4-46.1.svn1587.x86_64.rpm d00917c7cbcd45b37e035149a97760d8 x86_64/iiimf-protocol-lib-11.4-46.1.svn1587.x86_64.rpm a0195ae081724d55a5d77c3330ff31f9 x86_64/iiimf-protocol-lib-devel-11.4-46.1.svn1587.x86_64.rpm 105b29382ca9548cf5db880c9456d981 x86_64/iiimf-client-lib-11.4-46.1.svn1587.x86_64.rpm 93810869492d32f133f879b7a5d47f0e x86_64/iiimf-client-lib-devel-11.4-46.1.svn1587.x86_64.rpm 5911c376fc0010fac972ad6997d562c8 x86_64/iiimf-server-11.4-46.1.svn1587.x86_64.rpm 50b5765f7333fd9cd3446de2ef1467f7 x86_64/iii...

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Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-208 2004-07-08
Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : im-sdk Version : 11.4 Release : 46.1.svn1587 Summary : IIIMF multilingual Unicode input method framework Description : IIIMF is a next generation multilingual Unicode input method framework, which is a replacement of existing input method frameworks such as XIM. This IIIMF implementation includes Language Engines for various Asian languages allowing one to switch between inputting complex charactersin a number of different languages in supported applications.

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Product: Fedora Core 2
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Version: 11.4 Release : 46.1.svn1587 Summary : IIIMF multilingual Unicode input method framework

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