Fedora Essential and Critical Security Patch Updates - Page 886
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The w3m program is a pager (or text file viewer) that can also be usedas a text-mode Web browser.
Chris Evans discovered a number of integer overflow bugs that affect libtiff. An attacker who has the ability to trick a user into opening a malicious TIFF file could cause the application linked to libtiff to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
This update fixes the bug that catches the wrong values of bpp in the BMP plugin.
K3b provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVDburning tasks. While the experienced user can take influence in allsteps of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in theautomatic settings and the reasonable k3b defaults which allow a quickstart.
when renaming users, ensure that groups forget about the old user name (#135280)
Backport fix for CAN-2004-0918 (Remote Denial of Service attack)
This update fixes many bugs, mostly in the LDAP backend and the Python bindings.
This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around the world.
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful imagecomposition and editing program, which can be extremely useful forcreating logos and other graphics for webpages.
This update fixes a potential DoS against squid that was reported by Secunia.
In situations where an untrusted local user can affect the environment of a privileged process, this behavior could be exploited to run arbitrary code with the privileges of a setuid or setgid application.
This update upgrades Pango to version 1.4.1, fixing numerous bugs; among other things, it fixes some serious problems with font selection for East Asian languages, and a common crash in the Hangul shaper.
This update fixes an information leakage problem when printing to SMB shares requiring authentication. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0923 to this issue.
Simon Josefsson noticed that the tspc.conf configuration file in freenet6, a client to configure an IPv6 tunnel to freenet6.net, is set world readable.