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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-5035 (perl-YAML-LibYAML)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.38-2.fc16
Date:  Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:30:56 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120408033056.4E45120F45@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-5035 2012-03-31 02:14:54 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : perl-YAML-LibYAML Product : Fedora 16 Version : 0.38 Release : 2.fc16 URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/YAML-LibYAML/ Summary : Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml Description : Kirill Siminov's "libyaml" is arguably the best YAML implementation. The C library is written precisely to the YAML 1.1 specification. It was originally bound to Python and was later bound to Ruby. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes various format string vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-1152, CPAN RT#46507). The Fedora 15 and Fedora 16 builds also include some bug-fixes from upstream: * Fix for broken deparse test * Fix LoadFile on empty file failure -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Mar 29 2012 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 0.38-2 - Fix various format string vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-1152, CPAN RT#46507) - De-duplicate buildreqs, with Module>Install>Tests priority - Install to vendor directories - Don't need to remove empty directories from buildroot - Don't use macros for commands - Make %files list more explicit - Tidy %description * Fri Jan 13 2012 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 0.38-1 - Bump to 0.38 * Fri Sep 30 2011 Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com> - 0.37-1 - 0.37 bump - Remove defattr - Correct BR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #801738 - CVE-2012-1152 perl-YAML-LibYAML: Multiple format string flaws by reporting errors during YAML document load https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801738 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-YAML-LibYAML' 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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