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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-18575 (weechat)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: weechat-0.3.8-4.fc16
Date:  Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:18:40 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121129061840.19C8B20E24@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-18575 2012-11-20 02:19:34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : weechat Product : Fedora 16 Version : 0.3.8 Release : 4.fc16 URL : http://weechat.org Summary : Portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client Description : WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable and extensible with scripts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix arbitrary code execution due to call of shell when executing command within hook_process -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Nov 19 2012 Paul P. Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net> - 0.3.8-4 - fix bz#878025 * Fri Nov 9 2012 Paul P. Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net> - 0.3.8-3 - fix bz#875181 * Sun Jul 22 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.3.8-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Jun 26 2012 Russell Golden <niveusluna@niveusluna.org> - 0.3.8-1 - New upstream version * Fri Mar 16 2012 Paul P. Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net> - 0.3.7-1 - new upstream version * Wed Feb 8 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda@redhat.com> - 0.3.6-2 - Rebuilt for Ruby 1.9.3. * Wed Jan 18 2012 Paul P. Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net> - 0.3.6-1 - new upstream version * Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.3.5-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Nov 10 2011 Paul P. Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net> - 0.3.5-2 - rebuilt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #878025 - CVE-2012-5534 weechat (scripts / plug-ins): Arbitrary code execution due to call of shell when executing command within hook_process https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878025 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update weechat' 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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