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Fedora alert FEDORA-2010-10581 (avahi)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: avahi-0.6.25-7.fc13
Date:  Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:27:06 +0000
Message-ID:  <20100706172707.0027C111C9A@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-10581 2010-06-30 14:46:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : avahi Product : Fedora 13 Version : 0.6.25 Release : 7.fc13 URL : http://avahi.org Summary : Local network service discovery Description : Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network -- this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X (branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes 'ZeroConf') and is very convenient. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix for CVE-2010-2244. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jun 30 2010 Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com> - 0.6.25-7 - Fix CVE-2010-2244, rhbz 607297 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #607293 - CVE-2010-2244 DoS (assertion failure) after receiving a packet with corrupted checksum https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607293 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update avahi' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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