-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-16381 2013-09-11 00:37:26 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : lightdm Product : Fedora 18 Version : 1.4.3 Release : 1.fc18 URL : https://launchpad.net/lightdm/ Summary : Lightweight Display Manager Description : LightDM is an X display manager that: * Has a lightweight codebase * Is standards compliant (PAM, ConsoleKit, etc) * Has a well defined interface between the server and user interface * Fully themeable (easiest with the webkit interface) * Cross-desktop (greeters can be written in any toolkit) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is a stable update in the 1.4 series adding a few important fixes backported from later versions. Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.2 include: * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file. * Stop using g_file_set_replace - it can leave intermediate files around See also: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-September/000438.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-September/000446.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Sep 12 2013 Rex Dieter <[email protected]> - 1.4.3-1 - lightdm-1.4.3 - Word-readable .Xauthority (#1007187, CVE-2013-4331) * Fri Sep 6 2013 Rex Dieter <[email protected]> 1.4.2-1 - lightdm-1.4.2 * Sun Apr 14 2013 Rex Dieter <[email protected]> 1.4.1-3 - lightdm does not honor UID_MIN from /etc/login.defs (#907312) * Sun Apr 14 2013 Rex Dieter <[email protected]> 1.4.1-2 - No login key is writen in Mate-Desktop (#896130) * Wed Mar 27 2013 Rex Dieter <[email protected]> 1.4.1-1 - lightdm-1.4.1 - lightdm.conf: +xserver-command=X -background none * Thu Jan 10 2013 Rex Dieter <[email protected]> 1.4.0-5 - polish systemd-login1 power support patch * Tue Jan 8 2013 Rex Dieter <[email protected]> 1.4.0-4 - omit upstart/init support from packaging (#892157) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1007187 - lightdm: lightdm : Word-readable .Xauthority : [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007187 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update lightdm' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
