Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-9597 (lynx)
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| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: lynx-2.8.6-12.fc8 | |
| Date: | Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:25:01 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20081203012501.C278C208DD3@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-9597 None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : lynx Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.8.6 Release : 12.fc8 URL : http://lynx.isc.org/ Summary : A text-based Web browser Description : Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags. One advantage Lynx has over graphical browsers is speed; Lynx starts and exits quickly and swiftly displays webpages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Nov 10 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-12 - Fixed CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command execution. via a crafted lynxcgi: URL (thoger) * Fri May 30 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-11 - updated to latest upstream version 2.8.6rel5 - Resolves: #214205 * Wed Jan 9 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-10 - added telnet, rsh, zip and unzip to BuildRequires - Resolves: #430508 * Wed Jan 9 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-9 - fixed crash when using formatting character '$' in translation - Resolves: #426449 * Tue Dec 11 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-8 - add default-colors option, change default setting (#409211) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #468184 - CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command execution via a crafted lynxcgi: URL https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468184 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update lynx' 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...