[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: apr-util-1.3.10-1.fc13

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-15953
2010-10-08 19:55:43
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Name        : apr-util
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 1.3.10
Release     : 1.fc13
URL         : http://apr.apache.org/
Summary     : Apache Portable Runtime Utility library
Description :
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a
free library of C data structures and routines.  This library
contains additional utility interfaces for APR; including support
for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing and more.

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Update Information:

This update includes the latest stable release of the APR-util library.

A memory leak in the apr_brigade_split_line() function allowed a denial of service attack network services using this function, such as the Apache HTTP Server. (CVE-2010-1623)

Bug fixes to the "thread pool" interfaces and ODBC support are also included.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Oct  5 2010 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 1.3.10-1
- update to 1.3.10
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #640281 - CVE-2010-1623 apr-util: DoS (memory consumption) by processing certain APR buckets
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640281
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update apr-util' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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