[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libuv-0.10.18-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-19491
2013-10-19 07:32:49
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Name        : libuv
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.10.18
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://nodejs.org/
Summary     : Platform layer for node.js
Description :
libuv is a new platform layer for Node. Its purpose is to abstract IOCP on
Windows and libev on Unix systems. We intend to eventually contain all platform
differences in this library.

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Update Information:

This release contains a security fix for the http server implementation, please
upgrade as soon as possible. For more information, see <http://ur1.ca/fwrj8>.

2013.10.18, node.js Version 0.10.21 (Stable)

* crypto: clear errors from verify failure (Timothy J Fontaine)

* dtrace: interpret two byte strings (Dave Pacheco)

* fs: fix fs.truncate() file content zeroing bug (Ben Noordhuis)

* http: provide backpressure for pipeline flood (isaacs)

* tls: fix premature connection termination (Ben Noordhuis)

2013.10.19, libuv Version 0.10.18 (Stable)

* unix: fix uv_spawn() NULL pointer deref on ENOMEM (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: don't close inherited fds on uv_spawn() fail (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: revert recent FSEvent changes (Ben Noordhuis)

* unix: fix non-synchronized access in signal.c (Ben Noordhuis)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1021170 - CVE-2013-4450 NodeJS: HTTP Pipelining DoS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021170
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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