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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2818 (gnome-screensaver)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: gnome-screensaver-2.18.2-3.fc7
Date:  Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:34:10 +0000
Message-ID:  <200804012141.m31Lf4Ib016067@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2818 2008-04-01 21:08:20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gnome-screensaver Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.18.2 Release : 3.fc7 URL : http://www.gnome.org Summary : GNOME Screensaver Description : gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update addresses CVE-2007-6389 a flaw where the contents of the user's clipboard can be accessed from the "Leave Message" feature within the lock screen dialog. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Mar 28 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 2.18.2-3 - Address CVE-2007-6389 (bug 426169) * Mon Jul 9 2007 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 2.18.2-2 - add build requires to fix fade in animation (bug 247485) * Tue May 29 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.18.2-1 - Update to 2.18.2 - Drop upstreamed patches -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #426169 - CVE-2007-6389 gnome-screensaver clipboard content leak [7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426169 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gnome-screensaver' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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