Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-2799 (yum)

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    	       [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: yum-3.4.3-51.fc18 
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    	       Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:08:08 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-2799
2013-02-21 04:52:37
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Name        : yum
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 3.4.3
Release     : 51.fc18
URL         : http://yum.baseurl.org/
Summary     : RPM package installer/updater/manager
Description :
Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and
install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded
automatically, prompting the user for permission as necessary.

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Update Information:

Fix a DOS attack (maybe more) by a bad Fedora mirror on repo. metadata.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 19 2013 James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> - 3.4.3-51
- Fix non-removal of corrupt metadata files. BZ 908870.
* Tue Feb 19 2013 Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas@redhat.com> - 3.4.3-50
- Revert last commit, bump the obsoleted range.  BZ 905438
* Wed Feb  6 2013 Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas@redhat.com> - 3.4.3-49
- Conflict with yum-plugin-downloadonly.  BZ 905438
* Wed Jan 16 2013 Zdeněk Pavlas <zpavlas@redhat.com> - 3.4.3-48
- Fix a typo in select_groups(). BZ 885139
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update yum' 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
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