[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gypsy-0.9-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-8687
2013-05-21 06:58:08
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Name        : gypsy
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.9
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/
Summary     : A GPS multiplexing daemon
Description :
Gypsy is a GPS multiplexing daemon which allows multiple clients to
access GPS data from multiple GPS sources concurrently.

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Update Information:

* New upstream 0.9 release
* add patch to fix FTBSF due to deprecated g_type_init
* Fix CVE-2011-0523 - read arbitrary files as the root user on behalf of a regular user
* Fix CVE-2011-0524 - buffer overflow in nmea device input handling (code no longer in existence)
* aarch64 support
* Fix segfault
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ChangeLog:

* Sun May 19 2013 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> 0.9-1
- New upstream 0.9 release
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.8-8
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.8-7
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #674129 - CVE-2011-0523 CVE-2011-0524 gypsy: multiple vulnerabilities
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674129
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gypsy' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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