[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: wv2-0.2.3-4.el5

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-6646
2012-08-08 17:43:47
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Name        : wv2
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 0.2.3
Release     : 4.el5
URL         : http://wvware.sourceforge.net
Summary     : A library which allows access to Microsoft® Word files
Description :
wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft® Word files. It can load and
parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. (These are the file formats known
internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6.) There is some support for reading earlier
formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext.

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Update Information:

Includes backported patch (from calligra) for msword filter overflow
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #846097 - CVE-2012-3455 Koffice: DOC file rendering buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846097
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update wv2' 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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