[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: gv-3.7.1-1.el5

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2010-3005
2010-07-02 18:49:36
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Name        : gv
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 3.7.1
Release     : 1.el5
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/
Summary     : A X front-end for the Ghostscript PostScript(TM) interpreter
Description :
GNU gv is a user interface for the Ghostscript PostScript(TM) interpreter.
Gv can display PostScript and PDF documents on an X Window System.

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Update Information:

- Update to 3.7.1 to fix CVE-2010-2055 and CVE-2010-2056  - Disable
international support to avoid segfault on exit
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #599621 - CVE-2010-2056 gv: Insecure (predictable) temporary file use
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599621
  [ 2 ] Bug #599564 - CVE-2010-2055 GhostScript: Honors files present in cwd at startup
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update gv' 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 EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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