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Fedora 8 Update: bitlbee-1.2.2-1.fc8

Fedora 8 Update: bitlbee-1.2.2-1.fc8

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Upstream released Bitlbee 1.2.2 with the following changes to the former release: - Security bugfix: It was possible to hijack accounts (without gaining access to the old account, it's simply an overwrite) - Some more stability improvements. - Fixed bug where people with non-lowercase nicks couldn't drop their account. - Easier upgrades of non-forking daemon mode servers (using the DEAF command). - Can be cross-compiled for Win32 now! (No support for SSL yet though, which makes it less useful for now.) - Exponential backoff on auto-reconnect. - Changing passwords gives less confusing feedback ("password is empty") now. Finished 26 Aug 2008

Fedora 9 Update: xastir-1.9.2-9.fc9

Fedora 9 Update: xastir-1.9.2-9.fc9

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Multiple insecure temporary file usage flaws were identified in the get-maptools.sh and get_shapelib.sh scripts shipped in xastir packages. As those scripts are not needed with Fedora-distributed xastir packages (they automate installation of libraries used by xastir, which are provided in the Fedora archive in the pre-packaged RPM format), they were removed.

Fedora 9 Update: policycoreutils-2.0.52-8.fc9

Fedora 9 Update: policycoreutils-2.0.52-8.fc9

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Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

Fedora 8 Update: thunderbird-2.0.0.16-1.fc8

Fedora 8 Update: thunderbird-2.0.0.16-1.fc8

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Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 8. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML content. An HTML mail containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2811)

Fedora 8 Update: httpd-2.2.9-1.fc8

Fedora 8 Update: httpd-2.2.9-1.fc8

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This update includes the latest release of httpd 2.2. A security issue is fixed in this update: A flaw was found in the handling of excessive interim responses from an origin server when using mod_proxy_http. In a forward proxy configuration, if a user of the proxy could be tricked into visiting a malicious web server, the proxy could be forced into consuming a large amount of stack or heap memory. This could lead to an eventual process crash due to stack space exhaustion.

Fedora 9 Update: httpd-2.2.9-1.fc9

Fedora 9 Update: httpd-2.2.9-1.fc9

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This update includes the latest release of httpd 2.2. Two security issues are fixed in this update: A flaw was found in the handling of excessive interim responses from an origin server when using mod_proxy_http. In a forward proxy configuration, if a user of the proxy could be tricked into visiting a malicious web server, the proxy could be forced into consuming a large amount of stack or heap memory. This could lead to an eventual process crash due to stack space exhaustion. A flaw was found in the handling of compression structures between mod_ssl and OpenSSL. A remote attacker enabling compression in an SSL handshake could cause a memory leak in the server, leading to a denial of service.

Fedora 8 Update: libetpan-0.54-1.fc8

Fedora 8 Update: libetpan-0.54-1.fc8

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Update to new upstream version 0.54 fixing a crash (NULL pointer dereference) in the mail message header parser. Note: There is no application in Fedora using libetpan library for which such crash could be considered a security issue. This can only be a security sensitive issue for some 3rd party, not packages applications.

Fedora 8 Update: kernel-2.6.25.6-27.fc8

Fedora 8 Update: kernel-2.6.25.6-27.fc8

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The asn1 implementation in (a) the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.6 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.5, as used in the cifs and ip_nat_snmp_basic modules; and (b) the gxsnmp package; does not properly validate length values during decoding of ASN.1 BER data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) a length greater than the working buffer, which can lead to an unspecified overflow; (2) an oid length of zero, which can lead to an off-by-one error; or (3) an indefinite length for a primitive encoding.

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