Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-6460 (acpid)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: acpid-2.0.9-1.fc14 
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-6460
2011-05-04 00:38:30
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Name        : acpid
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.0.9
Release     : 1.fc14
URL         : http://tedfelix.com/linux/acpid-netlink.html
Summary     : ACPI Event Daemon
Description :
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.

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ChangeLog:

* Tue May  3 2011 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 2.0.9-1
- fixes #701340 - CVE-2011-1159 acpid: blocked writes can lead to acpid daemon hang
- update to latest upstream 2.0.9
* Wed Dec  8 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 2.0.7-1
- fixes #660459 - Should be able to set options with /etc/sysconfig/acpid
- update to latest upstream
* Wed Nov  3 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 2.0.5-4
- fixes #648221 - SELinux is preventing /sbin/iwconfig access to a leaked /dev/input/event0 file
descriptor
* Wed Sep 29 2010 jkeating - 2.0.5-3.1
- Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #688698 - CVE-2011-1159 acpid: blocked writes can lead to acpid daemon hang
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update acpid' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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