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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-16381 (lightdm)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: lightdm-1.4.3-1.fc18
Date:  Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:17:05 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130926061705.5215320A68@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-16381 2013-09-11 00:37:26 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : lightdm Product : Fedora 18 Version : 1.4.3 Release : 1.fc18 URL : https://launchpad.net/lightdm/ Summary : Lightweight Display Manager Description : LightDM is an X display manager that: * Has a lightweight codebase * Is standards compliant (PAM, ConsoleKit, etc) * Has a well defined interface between the server and user interface * Fully themeable (easiest with the webkit interface) * Cross-desktop (greeters can be written in any toolkit) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is a stable update in the 1.4 series adding a few important fixes backported from later versions. Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.2 include: * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file. * Stop using g_file_set_replace - it can leave intermediate files around See also: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-Septem... http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-Septem... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Sep 12 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.3-1 - lightdm-1.4.3 - Word-readable .Xauthority (#1007187, CVE-2013-4331) * Fri Sep 6 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 1.4.2-1 - lightdm-1.4.2 * Sun Apr 14 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 1.4.1-3 - lightdm does not honor UID_MIN from /etc/login.defs (#907312) * Sun Apr 14 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 1.4.1-2 - No login key is writen in Mate-Desktop (#896130) * Wed Mar 27 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 1.4.1-1 - lightdm-1.4.1 - lightdm.conf: +xserver-command=X -background none * Thu Jan 10 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 1.4.0-5 - polish systemd-login1 power support patch * Tue Jan 8 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 1.4.0-4 - omit upstart/init support from packaging (#892157) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1007187 - lightdm: lightdm : Word-readable .Xauthority : [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007187 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update lightdm' 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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