[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: catdoc-0.94.2-10.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17554
2012-11-04 01:24:44
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Name        : catdoc
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.94.2
Release     : 10.fc17
URL         : http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
Summary     : A program which converts Microsoft office files to plain text
Description :
catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files
and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output.
Therefore it does same work for.doc files, as unix cat
command for plain ASCII files.
It is now accompanied by xls2csv - program which converts
Excel spreadsheet into comma-separated value file,
and catppt - utility to extract textual information
from Powerpoint files

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Update Information:

Fix security issue (buffer overflow).
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Nov  2 2012 Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah at gmail.com> - 0.94.2-10
- Fix buffer overflow vulnerability; RH#872390 / RH#872391
* Wed Jul 18 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.94.2-9
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #872390 - catdoc: buffer overflow flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872390
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update catdoc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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