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Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-8206 Moderate: Haskell Digest Auth Enforcement

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Keep abreast of the newest Fedora 22 haskell-platform security patch implementing more secure upload procedures.
Force cabal upload to always use digest auth and never basic auth Note this only affects uploading of new source tarballs to Hackage by Haskell upstream package maintainers

Summary

Haskell Platform is a suite of stable and well used Haskell libraries

and tools. It provides a good starting environment for Haskell development.

Update Information:

Force cabal upload to always use digest auth and never basic auth

Note this only affects uploading of new source tarballs to Hackage by Haskell upstream package maintainers. It is safer to upload packages via the Hackage web interface.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora package management digest authentication Haskell

Change Log

* Wed May 13 2015 Jens Petersen - 2014.2.0.0.3-4 - bump cabal-install to 1.18.1.0 and allow newer versions

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-8206 2015-05-14 20:20:21
Name : haskell-platform Product : Fedora 22 Version : 2014.2.0.0.2 Release : 4.fc22 URL : https://www.haskell.org/platform/ Summary : Standard Haskell distribution Description : Haskell Platform is a suite of stable and well used Haskell libraries and tools. It provides a good starting environment for Haskell development.

Update Instructions

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

Name: haskell-platform
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2014.2.0.0.2
Release: 4.fc22
URL: https://www.haskell.org/platform/
Summary: Standard Haskell distribution

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora package management digest authentication Haskell

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