Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-2295 Moderate DoS Threat Fix for Psi

Psi is the premiere Instant Messaging application designed for Microsoft

Windows, Apple Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. Built upon an open protocol named

Jabber, Psi is a fast and lightweight messaging client that utilises the best

in open source technologies. Psi contains all the features necessary to chat,

with no bloated extras that slow your computer down. The Jabber protocol

provides gateways to other protocols as AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo!.

If you want SSL support, install the qca-tls package.

This is a security-bugfix-only update to version 0.12.1 fixing a DOS

vulnerability. New in 0.12.1 - Bugfix for DOS vulnerability in the file

transfer code. Thanks to Jesus Olmos (jolmos@isecauditors.com)

* Tue Mar 3 2009 Sven Lankes 0.12.1-1

- version 0.12.1

* Wed Aug 13 2008 Aurelien Bompard 0.12-1

- version 0.12

* Wed May 21 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway 0.11-5

- fix license tag

[ 1 ] Bug #488301 - CVE-2008-6393 psi: remote DoS vulnerability [F9]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488301

su -c 'yum update psi' at the command line.

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available at .

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