[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: insight-7.4.50-4.20120403cvs.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18311
2012-11-16 07:02:22
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Name        : insight
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 7.4.50
Release     : 4.20120403cvs.fc17
URL         : http://sources.redhat.com/insight/
Summary     : Graphical debugger based on GDB
Description :
 Insight is a tight graphical user interface to GDB written in Tcl/Tk.
It provides a comprehensive interface that enables users to harness
most of GDB's power. It's also probably the only up-to-date UI for
GDB version 6.x.

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Update Information:

* Thu Nov 15 2012 Patrick Monnerat <pm at datasphere.ch> 7.4.50-4.20120403cvs
- Path "objalloc" to fix libiberty security bug CVE-2012-3509.
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877014
- Enable Python to support STL extensions.
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865554
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 15 2012 Patrick Monnerat <pm at datasphere.ch> 7.4.50-4.20120403cvs
- Path "objalloc" to fix libiberty security bug CVE-2012-3509.
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877014
- Enable Python to support STL extensions.
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865554
- Patch "structsiginfo" to replace occurrences of "struct siginfo" by
  "siginfo_t".
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #849693 - CVE-2012-3509 libiberty: integer overflow, leading to heap-buffer overflow by processing certain file headers via bfd binary
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849693
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update insight' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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