Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-7029 (libxslt)
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| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: libxslt-1.1.24-2.fc8 | |
| Date: | Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:51:46 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20080807235146.887681AD11C@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-7029 2008-08-07 21:16:33 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libxslt Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.1.24 Release : 2.fc8 URL : http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ Summary : Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine Description : This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files (or HTML, text, ...) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.27 installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: fix for CVE-2008-2935 problem in exslt rc4 crypto extensions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Aug 1 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 1.1.24-2.fc8 - CVE-2008-2935 fix * Tue May 13 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 1.1.24-1.fc8 - release of 1.1.24 - fixes a few bugs including the key initialization problem - tentative fix for multiarch devel problems * Fri Apr 11 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 1.1.23-1.fc8 - upstream release 1.1.23 see http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html - bugfixes release -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #455848 - CVE-2008-2935 libxslt: buffer overflow in libexslt RC4 encryption/decryption functions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455848 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libxslt' 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...