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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-13258 (xlockmore)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: xlockmore-5.43-1.fc19
Date:  Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:49:52 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130730174951.58A5B22E05@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-13258 2013-07-20 07:35:44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xlockmore Product : Fedora 19 Version : 5.43 Release : 1.fc19 URL : http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlockmore.html Summary : Screen lock and screen saver Description : Locks the local X display until a password is entered. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: fixed "NULL pointer dereference leads to crash and bypass of screen lock" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jul 18 2013 Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de> - 5.43-1 - updated to 5.43 - fixed "NULL pointer dereference leads to crash and bypass of screen lock" (#985542) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #985540 - CVE-2013-4143 xlockmore: NULL pointer dereference leads to crash and bypass of screen lock https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985540 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xlockmore' 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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