-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3483 2011-06-04 01:06:15 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : jabberd Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 2.2.14 Release : 1.el6 URL : http://codex.xiaoka.com/wiki/jabberd2:start Summary : OpenSource server implementation of the Jabber protocols Description : The jabberd project aims to provide an open-source server implementation of the Jabber protocols for instant messaging and XML routing. The goal of this project is to provide a scalable, reliable, efficient and extensible server that provides a complete set of features and is up to date with the latest protocol revisions.
jabberd2 is the next generation of the jabberd server. It has been rewritten from the ground up to be scalable, architecturally sound, and to support the latest protocol extensions coming out of the JSF.
This package defaults to use pam and sqlite.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This update fixes an important security issue (CVE-2011-1755), for more information, please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #700390 - CVE-2011-1755 jabberd: DoS via the XML "billion laughs attack" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update jabberd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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