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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-11351 (avahi)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-11351 2008-12-17 03:33:20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : avahi Product : Fedora 10 Version : 0.6.22 Release : 12.fc10 URL : http://avahi.org Summary : Local network service discovery Description : Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network -- this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X (branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes 'ZeroConf') and is very convenient. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This version includes five patches backported from the recently released 0.6.24: - A trivial security fix for CVE-2008-5081, rhbz 475964. - A trivial fix for the threaded event loop, avahi bts #251 - A trivial fix unbreaking the --force-bind logic of avahi-autoipd, avahi bts #209 - A trivial fix to make sure we never end up with an invalid IP address in avahi-autoipd, avahi bts #231 - A trivial change to include the host name of the sender when we receive bogus mDNS packets, rhbz #438013 All changes are "trivial", i.e. very simple in nature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sun Dec 14 2008 Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com> - 0.6.22-12 - Fix a couple of issues, rhbz #475394, avahi bts #209, rhbz #438013, avahi bts All backported from upstream 0.6.24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #475964 - CVE-2008-5081 avahi: avahi-daemon DoS (application abort) via packet with source port 0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475964 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update avahi' 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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