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Fedora 9: 2009-8321 High: Gnome Terminal Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

fedora
Calendar Grey September 10, 2008
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch addresses a formatting bug in yelp version 2.20, improving the security of Fedora 8. Ensure you remain protected and up to date!
This update fixes a format string vulnerability that was discovered in yelp 2.20.

Summary

Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed

to help you browse all the documentation on your system in

one central tool.

Update Information:

This update fixes a format string vulnerability that was discovered in yelp 2.20.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Fedora format string remote execution yelp

Change Log

* Mon Aug 25 2008 Matthew Barnes - 2.20.0-12 - Add patch for RH bug #459487 (format string vulnerability). * Tue Jul 15 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.20.0-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 2 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.20.0-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Apr 16 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.20.0-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.20.0-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.20.0-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon - 2.20.0-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Nov 5 2007 Matthias Clasen - 2.20.0-5 - Fix a crash in search (#361041) * Mon Nov 5 2007 Martin Stransky - 2.20.0-4 - Rebuild against new firefox * Sun Nov 4 2007 Matthias Clasen - 2.20.0-3 - Fix a crash when loading the rarian docs

References


[ 1 ] Bug #459487 - CVE-2008-3533 yelp: Invalid URI format string vulnerability (remote arbitrary code execution) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459487

Update Instructions

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

Name: yelp
Product: Fedora 8
Version: 2.20.0
Release: 12.fc8
URL:
Summary: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Fedora format string remote execution yelp

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