[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: kdebase-workspace-4.4.2-5.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-6605
2010-04-15 02:28:34
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Name        : kdebase-workspace
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 4.4.2
Release     : 5.fc13
URL         : http://www.kde.org/
Summary     : KDE Workspace
Description :
The KDE Workspace consists of what is the desktop of the
KDE Desktop Environment.

This package contains:
* khotkeys (a hotkey daemon)
* klipper (a cut & paste history utility)
* kmenuedit (the menu editor)
* krandrtray (resize and rotate X screens)
* krunner (a command run interface)
* ksysguard (a performance monitor)
* kwin (the window manager of KDE)
* kxkb (a utility to switch keyboard maps)
* plasma (the KDE desktop, panels and widgets workspace application)
* systemsettings (the configuration editor)

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Update Information:

This build includes  * a couple of small powerdevil patches (see kde bugs
221637, 221637),  * fix icon name in plasma-konsole patch: use XDG icon instead
of kappfinder one,  * initial attempts at kdm/plymouth integration,  * upstream
kdm security fix for CVE-2010-0436
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #570613 - CVE-2010-0436 kdm privilege escalation flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570613
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update kdebase-workspace' 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
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