[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: shim-signed-0.8-3

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-14058
2014-11-01 00:30:45
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Name        : shim-signed
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 0.8
Release     : 3
URL         : http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/shim/
Summary     : First-stage UEFI bootloader
Description :
Initial UEFI bootloader that handles chaining to a trusted full bootloader
under secure boot environments. This package contains the version signed by
the UEFI signing service.

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Update Information:

This update fixes CVEs CVE-2014-3675, CVE-2014-3676, and CVE-2014-3677, as well as moving to the 0.8 release, which adds support for Aarch64 and fixes several bugs.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Oct 30 2014 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> - 0.8-2
- Remove the dist tag so people don't complain about what it says.
* Fri Oct 24 2014 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> - 0.8-1
- Update to shim 0.8
  rhbz#1148230
  rhbz#1148231
  rhbz#1148232
- Handle building on aarch64 as well
* Fri Jul 18 2014 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> - 0.7-2
- Don't do multi-signing; too many machines screw up verification.
  Resolves: rhbz#1049749
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1148230 - CVE-2014-3675 shim: out-of-bounds memory read flaw in DHCPv6 packet processing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148230
  [ 2 ] Bug #1148231 - CVE-2014-3676 shim: heap-based buffer overflow flaw in IPv6 address parsing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148231
  [ 3 ] Bug #1148232 - CVE-2014-3677 shim: memory corruption flaw when processing Machine Owner Keys (MOKs)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148232
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update shim-signed' 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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