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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-1366 (gpsdrive)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: gpsdrive-2.09-7.fc9
Date:  Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:22:44 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090205022244.97533208EB6@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-1366 2009-02-05 01:18:18 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gpsdrive Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.09 Release : 7.fc9 URL : http://www.gpsdrive.de/index.shtml Summary : A GPS based navigation tool Description : Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver. The maps are autoselected for the best resolution, depending of your position, and the displayed image can be zoomed. Maps can be downloaded from the Internet with one mouse click. The program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position, and target position. Speech output is also available. MySQL is supported. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update removes several helper scripts: geo-code, geo-nearest, and gpssmswatch, which have been removed upstream due to security issues. This update also has a fix for an issue with the splash screen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Feb 2 2009 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@tummy.com> - 2.09-7 - fix for CVE-2008-4959 - bug 470241 - fix for CVE-2008-5380 - bug 475478 - fix for CVE-2008-5703 - bug 481702 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #470241 - CVE-2008-4959 gpsdrive: geo-code insecure temporary file use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470241 [ 2 ] Bug #481702 - CVE-2008-5703 gpsdrive: insecure temporary file use in gpssmswatch and splash.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481702 [ 3 ] Bug #475478 - CVE-2008-5380 gpsdrive: Insecure temporary file use in geo-code, geo-nearest (symlink attack) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475478 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gpsdrive' 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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