[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: xscreensaver-5.34-1.fc23

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-19b2b73dc5
2015-11-02 17:42:58.181504
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Name        : xscreensaver
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 5.34
Release     : 1.fc23
URL         : http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
Summary     : X screen saver and locker
Description :
A modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System.
More than 200 display modes are included in this package.

This is a metapackage for installing all default packages
related to XScreenSaver.

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Update Information:

A security flaw was found that xscreensaver aborts in some case with dual screen
and unplugging one of them. This new rpm should fix the issue.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1274452 - Xscreensaver lock bypass
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274452
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update xscreensaver' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at https://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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