[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: gdm-2.14.8-1

Raymond Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Sat Jun 10 00:04:40 UTC 2006


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-692
2006-06-09
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : gdm
Version     : 2.14.8
Release     : 1
Summary     : The GNOME Display Manager.
Description :
Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable
reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log
into your system with the X Window System running and supports running
several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time.

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Update Information:

This update addresses a moderate security issue where the
user can enter the GDM configuration GUI with a user
password when the Face Browser is enabled.  Refer to
bugzilla.gnome.org bug #343476.

This update also upgrades GDM to version 2.14.8.
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* Thu Jun  8 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.14.8-1
- Update to 2.14.8
- Fixes CVE-2006-2452 (bug 343476).
* Wed Jun  7 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.14.4-1.fc5.3
- Add BuildRequires on xorg-x11-server-Xorg (bug 194295)
* Tue Jun  6 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 1:2.14.4-1.fc.2
- Require system-logos, not fedora-logos
- Add missing BuildRequires

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

86169d068cef84fa49abf49e0fdce25e5335abcb  SRPMS/gdm-2.14.8-1.src.rpm
86169d068cef84fa49abf49e0fdce25e5335abcb  noarch/gdm-2.14.8-1.src.rpm
739148f0570e1c653d21bcb4b0c36fe86ad15252  ppc/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.8-1.ppc.rpm
7b5655c32d295c1d5ef77ddcc8835bb394c7a11a  ppc/gdm-2.14.8-1.ppc.rpm
3bf8f7022bd2c846d89bc9420ae9704f4baff0ce  x86_64/gdm-2.14.8-1.x86_64.rpm
7a146cda3fa1279499af1fcf75b58a4b1c4ec5ef  x86_64/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.8-1.x86_64.rpm
e5f5907518b50346c22d05fa506403b3029f5ba7  i386/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.8-1.i386.rpm
740fd598c16c7372735272c768bc99474871c13c  i386/gdm-2.14.8-1.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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