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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-1001 (vnc)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: vnc-4.1.3-1.fc9
Date:  Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:51:41 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090127015141.2150A208610@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-1001 2009-01-27 00:36:46 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : vnc Product : Fedora 9 Version : 4.1.3 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.realvnc.com Summary : A remote display system Description : Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains a client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC server. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to 4.1.3 maintenance release which contains fix for CVE-2008-4770 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jan 26 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.3-1 - updated to 4.1.3 (CVE-2008-4770) * Wed Nov 12 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-32 - minor correction in configure flags to make GLX working (#471166) * Mon Jun 30 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-31 - enabled XKEYBOARD extension (#450033) - improved IPv6 support in viewer (#438422) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #480590 - CVE-2008-4770 vnc: vncviewer insufficient encoding value validation in CMsgReader::readRect https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480590 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update vnc' 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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