Fedora alert FEDORA-2014-4676 (a2ps)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: a2ps-4.14-23.fc19 | |
| Date: | Thu, 08 May 2014 10:18:21 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20140508101821.F252E22A1E@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-4676 2014-04-02 07:55:24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : a2ps Product : Fedora 19 Version : 4.14 Release : 23.fc19 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/ Summary : Converts text and other types of files to PostScript Description : The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript. A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), and medias. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes a security problem in the fixps utility (CVE-2014-0466). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Apr 1 2014 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - 4.14-23 - Invoke gs with the -dSAFER option in fixps (CVE-2014-0466, bug #1082411). * Tue Dec 3 2013 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - 4.14-22 - Prevent build failure with -Werror=format-security (bug #1036979). * Sat Aug 3 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 4.14-21 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1082410 - CVE-2014-0466 a2ps: fixps does not invoke gs with -dSAFER https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082410 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update a2ps' 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-...