Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-18526 (weechat)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: weechat-0.3.8-4.fc17 
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Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:09:36 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18526
2012-11-20 02:12:57
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Name        : weechat
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.3.8
Release     : 4.fc17
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.

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Update Information:

Fix arbitrary code execution due to call of shell when executing command within hook_process
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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
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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
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update weechat' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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