[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: lightdm-1.6.2-1.fc19
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Mon Sep 16 00:31:10 UTC 2013
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-16388
2013-09-11 00:37:38
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Name : lightdm
Product : Fedora 19
Version : 1.6.2
Release : 1.fc19
URL : https://launchpad.net/lightdm/
Summary : Lightweight Display Manager
Description :
LightDM is an X display manager that:
* Has a lightweight codebase
* Is standards compliant (PAM, ConsoleKit, etc)
* Has a well defined interface between the server and user interface
* Fully themeable (easiest with the webkit interface)
* Cross-desktop (greeters can be written in any toolkit)
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Update Information:
New stable bugfix, security release: include:
* Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
* Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
* Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
See also:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-September/000439.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-September/000447.html
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Sep 12 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.2-1
- lightdm-1.6.2
- Word-readable .Xauthority (#1007187, CVE-2013-4331)
* Fri Sep 6 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.1-1
- lightdm-1.6.1
* Tue Aug 20 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.0-11
- remove systemd preset (#963899)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #985861 - [abrt] lightdm-gtk-1.5.1-3.fc19: g_malloc: Process /usr/sbin/lightdm-gtk-greeter was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985861
[ 2 ] Bug #1007187 - lightdm: lightdm : Word-readable .Xauthority : [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007187
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update lightdm' 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
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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