[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: SimGear-2.0.0-5.fc14

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Fri Apr 29 22:18:43 UTC 2011


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5727
2011-04-21 21:44:44
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Name        : SimGear
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.0.0
Release     : 5.fc14
URL         : http://www.simgear.org
Summary     : Simulation library components
Description :
SimGear is a set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building
blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization
applications.

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Update Information:

SimGear had an old (and potentially vulnerable to CVE-2009-3720) bundled copy of expat (which was fixed for this vulnerability at Fedora 9).

This update package uses the system expat library to resolve this issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 20 2011 Tom Callaway <spot at fedoraproject.org> 2.0.0-5
- nuke old bundled copy of expat, use system expat (resolves 691934)
* Mon Feb  7 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.0.0-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #691934 - CVE-2009-3720 expat: buffer over-read and crash on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691934
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update SimGear' 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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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