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Fedora 8 Xastir Update 2008-8685 Critical: Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2008
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent patch for xastir on Fedora 8 resolves a significant buffer overrun vulnerability, significantly improving the overall safety of the application.
new upstream update, as well as buffer overflow fixing.

Summary

Xastir is a graphical application that interfaces HAM radio

and internet access to realtime mapping software.

Install XASTIR if you are interested in APRS(tm) and HAM radio

software.

new upstream update, as well as buffer overflow fixing.

* Sun Oct 5 2008 Lucian Langa - 1.9.4-3

- autoreconf to apply libdir patch correctly

* Sun Oct 5 2008 Lucian Langa - 1.9.4-2

- fix build requires

* Sun Oct 5 2008 Lucian Langa - 1.9.4-1

- new upstream 1.9.4

- misc cleanups

- fix for #435762

- preserve timestamps of modified files

* Thu Aug 28 2008 Lucian Langa - 1.9.2-8

- drop uneeded and potential risky files (bug #460429)

* Thu Aug 28 2008 Lucian Langa - 1.9.2-7

- fix insecure auxiliary /tmp file usage bug #460429

[ 1 ] Bug #435762 - Buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435762

su -c ''yum update xastir'' 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/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 8
Version: 1.9.4
Release: 3.fc8
URL:
Summary: Amateur Station Tracking and Reporting system for amateur radio

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