[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: freeciv-2.3.3-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-20623
2012-12-19 07:54:36
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Name        : freeciv
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.3.3
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeciv/
Summary     : A multi-player strategy game
Description :
Freeciv is a turn-based, multi-player, X based strategy game. Freeciv
is generally comparable to, and has compatible rules with, the
Civilization II(R) game by Microprose(R). In Freeciv, each player is
the leader of a civilization, and is competing with the other players
in order to become the leader of the greatest civilization.

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Update Information:

Fix DoS security flaw.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 29 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> - 2.3.3-1
- 2.3.3, BZ 777333, fixes security flaw.
* Wed Aug 29 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> - 2.3.2-3
- Fix SDL_mixer/hardened build interaction, BZ 852635.
* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.2-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Apr 13 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> - 2.3.2-1
- Update to 2.3.2.
- Add hardened build.
* Thu Jan  5 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> - 2.3.1-1
- Update to 2.3.1.
* Fri Sep  9 2011 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> 2.3.0-1
- Update to 2.3.0.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #888331 - CVE-2012-5645 freeciv: DoS (memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption) via malformed network packets
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888331
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update freeciv' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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