[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: cgit-0.9.0.2-2.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9588
2011-07-23 01:31:50
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Name        : cgit
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 0.9.0.2
Release     : 2.fc14
URL         : http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/
Summary     : A fast web interface for git
Description :
Cgit is a fast web interface for git.  It uses caching to increase performance.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a potential XSS vulnerability¹.  A malicious user would need push access to the git server in order to exploit this issue. Refer to the cgit mailing list for:

Numerous minor bugs are also fixed.  For details, refer to the upstream release announcements for 0.9.0.1² and 0.9.0.2³.

¹ http://hjemli.net/pipermail/cgit/2011-July/000276.html  
² http://hjemli.net/pipermail/cgit/2011-June/000183.html  
³ http://hjemli.net/pipermail/cgit/2011-July/000273.html
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jul 22 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 0.9.0.2-2
- Fix potential XSS vulnerability in rename hint
* Thu Jul 21 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 0.9.0.2-1
- Update to 0.9.0.2
* Sun Mar  6 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 0.9-1
- Update to 0.9
- Fixes: CVE-2011-1027
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1027
- Generate and install man page and html docs
- Use libcurl-devel on RHEL >= 6
- Include example filter scripts
- Update example cgitrc
* Tue Feb  8 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.2.1-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #725042 - CVE-2011-2711 cgit: XSS flaw in rename hint
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725042
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update cgit' 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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