[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: automake-1.11.6-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-14297
2012-09-19 02:20:25
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Name        : automake
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.11.6
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/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.

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Update Information:

- automake-1.11.6, fixes CVE-2012-3386

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Sep  3 2012 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11.6-1
- automake-1.11.6, fixes CVE-2012-3386
* Mon Apr 16 2012 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11.5-1
- automake-1.11.5
* Tue Apr  3 2012 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11.4-1
- automake-1.11.4
* Thu Feb  2 2012 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11.3-1
- automake 1.11.3
* Mon Jan 30 2012 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11.2-1
- automake 1.11.2, enable all checks again
* Wed Dec  7 2011 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 1.11.1-7
- disable some erroneous checks (660739, 756957)
* Mon Feb  7 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.11.1-6
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #838660 - CVE-2012-3386 automake: locally exploitable "make distcheck" bug [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838660
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update automake' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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