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Fedora 21 Advisory: drupal6 Critical Update for Multiple Issues

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important notice for Fedora 21 concerning vulnerabilities in drupal6. Immediate update advised to ensure site protection.
Maintenance and security release of the Drupal 6 series

Summary

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal is a Content Management

System written in PHP that can support a variety of websites ranging from

personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. Drupal is highly

configurable, skinnable, and secure.

Update Information:

Maintenance and security release of the Drupal 6 series. This release fixes **security vulnerabilities**. Sites are [urged to upgrade immediately]() after reading the notes below and the security announcement: [Drupal Core - Critical - Multiple Vulnerabilities - SA-CORE-2015-003]() No other fixes are included. No changes have been made to the .htaccess, robots.txt or default settings.php files in this release, so upgrading custom versions of those files is not necessary. #### Known issues: None. #### Major changes since 6.36: * For security reasons, the autocomplete system now makes Ajax requests to non-clean URLs only, although protection is also in place for custom code that does so using clean URLs. There is a new form API #process function on autocomplete-enabled text fields that is required for the autocomplete functionality to work; custom and contributed modules should ensure that they are not overriding this #process function accidentally when altering text fields on ...

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1255662 - CVE-2015-6658 CVE-2015-6659 CVE-2015-6660 CVE-2015-6661 CVE-2015-6665 drupal: Several issues in 6.x and 7.x (SA-CORE-2015-003) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255662

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update drupal6' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: drupal6
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 6.37
Release: 1.fc21
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Summary: An open-source content-management platform

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