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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-7062 (libxslt)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: libxslt-1.1.24-2.fc9
Date:  Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:53:48 +0000
Message-ID:  <20080807235348.F066B1AD14F@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-7062 2008-08-07 21:18:27 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libxslt Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.1.24 Release : 2.fc9 URL : http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ Summary : Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine Description : This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files (or HTML, text, ...) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.27 installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: fix for CVE-2008-2935 problem in exslt rc4 crypto extensions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Aug 1 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 1.1.24-2.fc9 - CVE-2008-2935 fix * Tue May 13 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 1.1.24-1.fc9 - release of 1.1.24 - fixes a few bugs including the key initialization problem - tentative fix for multiarch devel problems -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #455848 - CVE-2008-2935 libxslt: buffer overflow in libexslt RC4 encryption/decryption functions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455848 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libxslt' 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...


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