-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-2688 2009-03-13 18:04:34 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : glib2 Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.16.6 Release : 3.fc9 URL : http://www.gtk.org Summary : A library of handy utility functions Description : GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system. This package provides version 2 of GLib. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes possible integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. This has been reported in CVE-2008-4316. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Mar 12 2009 Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> - 2.16.6-3 - Fix integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. CVE-2008-4316 * Mon Oct 27 2008 Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> - 2.16.6-2 - Use asm implementation for atomic ops on x86 * Fri Sep 12 2008 Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> - 2.16.6-1 - Update to 2.16.6 * Sat Jul 19 2008 Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> - 2.16.5-1 - Update to 2.16.5 * Tue Jul 1 2008 Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> - 2.16.4-1 - Update to 2.16.4 * Mon Jun 16 2008 Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> - 2.16.3-7 - Fix a directory ownership oversight (#449885) * Mon Jun 16 2008 Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> - 2.16.3-6 - Fix a race in class initialization that causes assertion failures and crashes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #474770 - CVE-2008-4316 glib2: integer overflows in the base64 handling functions (oCERT-2008-015) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474770 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update glib2' 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 [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
