[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: irssi-0.8.15-1.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-0079
2011-01-17 16:41:13
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Name        : irssi
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 0.8.15
Release     : 1.el5
URL         : http://irssi.org/
Summary     : Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting
Description :
Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode
frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer
being maintained.

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Update Information:

This release fixes two security issues: The first being that Irssi didn't check hostname on SSL connections and the other being a hard to exploit remote crash bug.

For a complete listing of the changes and bugfixes since 0.8.14, please have a look at the http://irssi.org/news/ChangeLog

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #581549 - CVE-2010-1155 CVE-2010-1156 irssi 0.8.15 fixes two security issues
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581549
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update irssi' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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