[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: uzbl-0-0.28.20111001git9576f59f05.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2384
2012-02-25 07:53:41
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Name        : uzbl
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0
Release     : 0.28.20111001git9576f59f05.fc16
URL         : http://www.uzbl.org
Summary     : Lightweight WebKit browser following the UNIX philosophy
Description :
Uzbl is a lightweight web browser based on WebKit/Gtk+.  Uzbl follows
the UNIX philosophy - "Write programs that do one thing and do it
well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text
streams, because that is a universal interface."

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Update Information:

Lock down cookie file permissions to not be world-readable.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb 23 2012 Ben Boeckel <mathstuf at gmail.com> - 0-0.28.20111001git9576f59f05
- Lock down permissions on cookie files (CVE-2012-0843)
- Clean up vim subpackage
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0-0.27.20111001git9576f59f05
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Oct 25 2011 Ben Boeckel <mathstuf at gmail.com> - 0-0.26.20111001git9576f59f05
- New upstream snapshot
- Add conditional support for webkitgtk3
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #789645 - CVE-2012-0843 uzbl: world-readable cookie file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789645
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update uzbl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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