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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-17749 (libsocialweb)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libsocialweb-0.25.21-1.fc17
Date:  Fri, 23 Nov 2012 03:10:04 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121123031004.D66DB21E8F@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-17749 2012-11-08 01:31:02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libsocialweb Product : Fedora 17 Version : 0.25.21 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://www.gnome.org/ Summary : A social network data aggregator Description : libsocialweb is a social data server which fetches data from the "social web", such as your friend's blog posts and photos, upcoming events, recently played tracks, and pending eBay* auctions. It also provides a service to update your status on web services which support it, such as MySpace* and Twitter*. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: CVE-2012-4511: libsocialweb untrusted connection to flickr The libsocialweb library is prone to a security vulnerability that allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks. Remote attackers can exploit this issue to gain access to sensitive information or modify the integrity of user accounts. Other attacks are also possible. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Oct 16 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> 0.25.21-1 - update to 0.25.21. Fixes CVE-2012-4511, RHBZ 865126 * Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.25.20-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #863206 - CVE-2012-4511 libsocialweb: connects with flickr server without user permission https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863206 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libsocialweb' 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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