[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: jabberd-2.2.14-1.el6

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3483
2011-06-04 01:06:15
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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.

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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.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #700390 - CVE-2011-1755 jabberd: DoS via the XML "billion laughs attack"
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390
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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/.

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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