[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: vnc-4.1.3-1.fc9
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 27 01:51:41 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1001
2009-01-27 00:36:46
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Name : vnc
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 4.1.3
Release : 1.fc9
URL : http://www.realvnc.com
Summary : A remote display system
Description :
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which
allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the
machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and
from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains a
client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC
server.
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Update Information:
Update to 4.1.3 maintenance release which contains fix for CVE-2008-4770
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Jan 26 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.3-1
- updated to 4.1.3 (CVE-2008-4770)
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-32
- minor correction in configure flags to make GLX working (#471166)
* Mon Jun 30 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-31
- enabled XKEYBOARD extension (#450033)
- improved IPv6 support in viewer (#438422)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #480590 - CVE-2008-4770 vnc: vncviewer insufficient encoding value validation in CMsgReader::readRect
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480590
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update vnc' 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
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