---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-745
2005-08-15
---------------------------------------------------------------------Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : kdeedu
Version     : 3.4.2                      
Release     : 0.fc3.2                  
Summary     : Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE
Description :
Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE

---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information:

Ben Burton notified the KDE security team about several
tempfile handling related vulnerabilities in langen2kvtml,
a conversion script for kvoctrain. The script must be
manually invoked.

The script uses known filenames in /tmp which allow an local 
attacker to overwrite files writeable by the user invoking the 
conversion script.

This update fixes these vulnerabilities.
---------------------------------------------------------------------* Tue Aug  9 2005 Than Ngo  3.4.2-0.fc3.2
- apply patch to fix tempfile vulnerability, CAN-2005-2101, #165606


---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from:
  
16f0ba99cbd812599efc87f439e3cd3e  SRPMS/kdeedu-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.src.rpm
d76cb28b1363d42cc95ed2e8b6ce453f  x86_64/kdeedu-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.x86_64.rpm
9e3beda785a248d2b32fda76c8274be8  x86_64/kdeedu-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.x86_64.rpm
14ba8ddbcb79d5c5800024843c7dd2f7 
x86_64/debug/kdeedu-debuginfo-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.x86_64.rpm
918f1d116b2b47b7fc7be55ef1ce5dd8  i386/kdeedu-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.i386.rpm
0461f594898e6caa6745cbf4017ce617  i386/kdeedu-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.i386.rpm
f0a8f527a6f30c9e78118804e54b73ca  i386/debug/kdeedu-debuginfo-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  
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Fedora Core 3 Update: kdeedu-3.4.2-0.fc3.2

August 15, 2005
Ben Burton notified the KDE security team about several tempfile handling related vulnerabilities in langen2kvtml, a conversion script for kvoctrain.

Summary

Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE

Ben Burton notified the KDE security team about several

tempfile handling related vulnerabilities in langen2kvtml,

a conversion script for kvoctrain. The script must be

manually invoked.

The script uses known filenames in /tmp which allow an local

attacker to overwrite files writeable by the user invoking the

conversion script.

This update fixes these vulnerabilities.

- apply patch to fix tempfile vulnerability, CAN-2005-2101, #165606

16f0ba99cbd812599efc87f439e3cd3e SRPMS/kdeedu-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.src.rpm

d76cb28b1363d42cc95ed2e8b6ce453f x86_64/kdeedu-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.x86_64.rpm

9e3beda785a248d2b32fda76c8274be8 x86_64/kdeedu-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.x86_64.rpm

14ba8ddbcb79d5c5800024843c7dd2f7

x86_64/debug/kdeedu-debuginfo-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.x86_64.rpm

918f1d116b2b47b7fc7be55ef1ce5dd8 i386/kdeedu-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.i386.rpm

0461f594898e6caa6745cbf4017ce617 i386/kdeedu-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.i386.rpm

f0a8f527a6f30c9e78118804e54b73ca i386/debug/kdeedu-debuginfo-3.4.2-0.fc3.2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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Name : kdeedu
Version : 3.4.2
Release : 0.fc3.2
Summary : Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE

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