[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: a2ps-4.14-23.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-4676
2014-04-02 07:55:24
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Name        : a2ps
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 4.14
Release     : 23.fc19
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/
Summary     : Converts text and other types of files to PostScript
Description :
The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript.
A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide
number of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.),
and medias.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a security problem in the fixps utility (CVE-2014-0466).
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr  1 2014 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> - 4.14-23
- Invoke gs with the -dSAFER option in fixps (CVE-2014-0466, bug #1082411).
* Tue Dec  3 2013 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> - 4.14-22
- Prevent build failure with -Werror=format-security (bug #1036979).
* Sat Aug  3 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 4.14-21
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1082410 - CVE-2014-0466 a2ps: fixps does not invoke gs with -dSAFER
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082410
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update a2ps' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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