[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: patch-2.6.1-8.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-1272
2011-02-10 20:46:53
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Name        : patch
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.6.1
Release     : 8.fc14
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html
Summary     : Utility for modifying/upgrading files
Description :
The patch program applies diff files to originals.  The diff command
is used to compare an original to a changed file.  Diff lists the
changes made to the file.  A person who has the original file can then
use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their
original file (patching the file).

Patch should be installed because it is a common way of upgrading
applications.

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Update Information:


Applied fix so that malicious patches cannot create files above the current directory (CVE-2010-4651).
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb 10 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 2.6.1-8
- Incorporate upstream fix for CVE-2010-4651 patch so that a target
  name given on the command line is not validated (bug #667529).
* Tue Feb  8 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 2.6.1-7
- Applied upstream patch to fix CVE-2010-4651 so that malicious
  patches cannot create files above the current directory
  (bug #667529).
* Tue Jan  4 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 2.6.1-6
- Use smp_mflags correctly (bug #665770).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #667529 - CVE-2010-4651 patch: directory traversal flaw allows for arbitrary file creation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667529
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update patch' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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