[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: dropbear-2013.59-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-18703
2013-10-10 14:18:18
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Name        : dropbear
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2013.59
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
Summary     : A lightweight SSH server and client
Description :
Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. Dropbear
is particularly useful for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix)
systems, such as wireless routers.

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Update Information:

New version/Unbundle libtom*/harden build/AArch64 support.

[edited]: CVE-2013-4421
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1017983 - CVE-2013-4421 dropbear: memory exhaustion DoS via large decompressed payloads
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017983
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dropbear' 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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