[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: automake-1.11.1-1.fc11.1

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-1216
2010-01-29 02:35:19
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Name        : automake
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.11.1
Release     : 1.fc11.1
URL         : http://sources.redhat.com/automake
Summary     : A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
Description :
Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in'
files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards.

You should install Automake if you are developing software and would
like to use its ability to automatically generate GNU standard
Makefiles. If you install Automake, you will also need to install
GNU's Autoconf package.

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Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2009-4029
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 27 2010 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> 1.11.1-1.fc11.1
- switch off make check on Fedora <= 11
* Wed Dec  9 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11.1-1
- update to version 1.11.1 to fix CVE-2009-4029
* Tue Dec  1 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11-6
- preserve time stamps of man pages (#225302)
- drop MIT from list of licenses
* Wed Nov  4 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 1.11-5
- add even more testsuite build requires
* Wed Nov  4 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 1.11-4
- add build requires for testsuite
* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.11-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon May 25 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> 1.11-2
- re-enable make check
- Automake 1.11 requires autoconf 2.62 or later
* Mon May 25 2009 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11-1
- update to automake 1.11
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #542609 - CVE-2009-4029 Automake: Race condition by creation of "distdir" based directory hierarchy
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542609
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update automake' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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