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Some of the wrapper scripts (including beagle-status) looked in the current directory for files with a specific name and ran that instead of the binary in the path. All such cases have been fixed in this release.
Coverity scanned the X.Org source code for problems and reported their findings to the X.Org development team. Upon analysis, Alan Coopersmith, a member of the X.Org development team, noticed a couple of serious security issues in the findings. In particular, the Xorg server can be exploited for root privilege escalation by passing a path to malicious modules using the -modulepath command line argument. Also, the Xorg server can be exploited to overwrite any root writable file on the filesystem with the -logfile command line argument.
Rebuilt against the latest kernel (2.6.15-1.1833_FC4).
Tavis Ormandy discovered a flaw in the way GnuPG verifies cryptographically signed data with inline signatures. It is possible for an attacker to add unsigned text to a signed message in such a way so that when the signed text is extracted, the unsigned text is extracted as well, appearing as if it had been signed. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2006-0049 to this issue.
The update adds two new options for netstat; T stops trimming remote and local addresses; Z shows selinux context, and fixes doublefree bug in route and netstat.
Update to latest Fedora Core Kernel.
Update to latest Fedora Core Kernel.
Update to latest Fedora Core Kernel.
Update to latest Fedora Core Kernel.
Nicholas Mailhot discovered that the previous squirrelmail update broke several non-English languages. This update fixes that issue.
Upgrade to version upstream 1.4.6 which solves these issues in addition to several bugs.
This update rebases to the latest -stable release (2.6.15.5), which fixes a number of security problems.
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