Fedora 15 Update: rdesktop-1.7.0-1.fc15

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-13408
2011-09-27 22:30:18
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Name        : rdesktop
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.7.0
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : http://www.rdesktop.org/
Summary     : X client for remote desktop into Windows Terminal Server
Description :
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and
Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT
desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.

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Update Information:

Upstream changes:

* Security: Directory traversal vulnerability with disk redirection (disallow /.. requests)
* New maintainer: Peter Åstrand
* Brush cache support
* Removed the hardcoded limit of the username length
* Increased domain name length to 255 chars
* Improved compatibility with PulseAudio/padsp
* Cleaned up and documented the return values
* Keyboard fix: avoid stuck keys in certain cases
* Support for new pointers
* License has been changed to GPLv3
* EWMH fixes for 64-bit machines
* RandR support: automatically resize session if using relative screen size
* Improved support for Windows 2008 Session Broker
* Japanese keyboard map has been improved
* New keyboard map: fr-bepo
* Many stability fixes regarding smart card redirection
* Windows 2008 R2 / 7: Fix sound playback when not using other redirections
* Windows 2008 R2 / 7: Solve disk redirection read-only issues
* Windows 2008 R2 / 7: Solve issue with recursive deletion
* Avoid exit when printing, if lpr command terminates early
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 30 2011 Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee> - 1.7.0-1
- Update to 1.7.0
* Mon May 30 2011 Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee> - 1.6.0-12
- Prevent remote file access (CVE-2011-1595)
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update rdesktop' 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 Project 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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