[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: xkeyboard-config-2.3-3.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-0709
2012-01-19 21:20:54
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Name        : xkeyboard-config
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.3
Release     : 3.fc15
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
Summary     : X Keyboard Extension configuration data
Description :
This package contains configuration data used by the X Keyboard Extension
(XKB), which allows selection of keyboard layouts when using a graphical
interface.

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Update Information:

Remove Ungrab/ClearGrab actions from the default keymap. This is a preventative update for xkeyboard-config to avoid triggering bug 783044 in the future. Fedora 15 currently does not ship an X server version that is affected by this bug.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 19 2012 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> 2.3-3
- Move Ungrab and ClearGrab from the default layout to option
  grab:break_actions (#783044)
* Tue Jun 14 2011 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> 2.3-2
- Add 0001-Use-XSL-to-generate-man-page-from-the-rules-XML.patch, ship
  man-page
- Fix up broken git repo initialization when building from a tarball
* Thu Jun  2 2011 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> 2.3-1
- xkeyboard-config 2.3
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #783044 - CVE-2012-0064 xkeyboard-config: screen-saver unlock via xkb debug key actions [fedora-16]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783044
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xkeyboard-config' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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