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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-9166 (libXext)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libXext-1.3.1-3.20130524gitdfe6e1f3b.fc18
Date:  Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:02:41 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130603030240.5826E20DEC@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-9166 2013-05-25 11:21:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libXext Product : Fedora 18 Version : 1.3.1 Release : 3.20130524gitdfe6e1f3b.fc18 URL : http://www.x.org Summary : X.Org X11 libXext runtime library Description : X.Org X11 libXext runtime library -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to latest git to fix the following CVEs: CVE-2013-1982 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri May 24 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com> 1.3.1-3.20130524gitdfe6e1f3b - Update to git snapshot to fix CVEs listed below - CVE-2013-1982 * Thu Mar 7 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com> - 1.3.1-4 - autoreconf for aarch64 * Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.1-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #959046 - CVE-2013-1982 libXext: Multiple integer overflows leading to heap-based buffer-overflows https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959046 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libXext' 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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