Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-7670 (rpy)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: rpy-1.0.3-3.fc9 | |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:53:10 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20080910065311.071142E00A6@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-7670 2008-09-05 10:59:55 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : rpy Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.0.3 Release : 3.fc9 URL : http://rpy.sourceforge.net Summary : Python interface to the R language Description : RPy provides a robust Python interface to the R programming language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions. All the errors from the R language are converted to Python exceptions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to R 2.7.2, also fixes security issue with unsafe temp directory handling in javareconf script. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Aug 29 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.0.3-3 - rebuild against R-2.7.2 * Tue Jul 8 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.0.3-2 - rebuild against R 2.7.1 * Wed May 21 2008 José Matos <jamatos[AT]fc.up.pt> - 1.0.3-1 - Update to 1.0.3 - Backport two patches from upstream (turn off debug and use the lapack version that R was compiled with) * Tue Apr 29 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.0.2-1 - update to 1.0.2 - R 2.7.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #460658 - R: Insecure auxiliary /tmp file usage (symlink attack possible) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460658 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update rpy' 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...