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Fedora 22: Important Security Advisory for Critical Drupal 6 Threats

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Act promptly to enhance your Fedora system with the latest Drupal 6 security patches. Mitigate critical threats today!
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 22
Version: 6.37
Release: 1.fc22
URL:
Summary: An open-source content-management platform

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