Fedora Core 4: 2006-705 High: Gnome Text Editor Security Flaw

Libraries for the K Desktop Environment.

KDE Libraries include: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user

interface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio

(Input/Output, networking), kspell (spelling checker), jscript

(javascript), kab (addressbook), kimgio (image manipulation).

A flaw was discovered affecting Kate, the KDE advanced text editor, and

Kwrite. Depending on system settings it may be possible for a local user

to read the backup files created by Kate or Kwrite. The Common

Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CAN-2005-1920 to

this issue.

Users of Kate or Kwrite should update to this erratum package which

contains a backported patch from the KDE security team correcting this issue.

- Kate backup file permission leak, apply patch to fix this vulnerabilities

CAN-2005-1920

- apply cvs patch to get rid of warning "Mutex destroy failure", #160922

* Wed May 4 2005 Than Ngo 6:3.3.1-2.13.FC3

- new patch to fix kimgio input validation vulnerabilities, CAN-2005-1046

7c16ace15f5c3cc17833062448f9a479 SRPMS/kdelibs-3.3.1-2.14.FC3.src.rpm

ab43dbc1f7f8bd0ab15abbd1b81fa8b7 x86_64/kdelibs-3.3.1-2.14.FC3.x86_64.rpm

00ff507d1d9629744a0750c5dc36c0ca x86_64/kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-2.14.FC3.x86_64.rpm

3aab6b8bf911cc5915392cafd78c5da3 x86_64/debug/kdelibs-debuginfo-3.3.1-2.14.FC3.x86_64.rpm

4ea59323607d5df364a9ba9a0bb9a6c7 x86_64/kdelibs-3.3.1-2.14.FC3.i386.rpm

4ea59323607d5df364a9ba9a0bb9a6c7 i386/kdelibs-3.3.1-2.14.FC3.i386.rpm

99f32b21eb7cf1c5a612356bcd935bcc i386/kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-2.14.FC3.i386.rpm

a1baca56812419ec7f261291bb86084b i386/debug/kdelibs-debuginfo-3.3.1-2.14.FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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