[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: prosody-0.9.9-2.fc23

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-38e48069f8
2016-01-20 18:01:46.169403
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Name        : prosody
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 0.9.9
Release     : 2.fc23
URL         : https://prosody.im/
Summary     : Flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP
Description :
Prosody is a flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP written in Lua.
It aims to be easy to use, and light on resources. For developers it aims
to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop
added functionality, or prototype new protocols.

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Update Information:

Prosody 0.9.9 =============  A summary of changes:  Security fixes
--------------    * Fix path traversal vulnerability in mod_http_files
(CVE-2016-1231)   * Fix use of weak PRNG in generation of dialback secrets
(CVE-2016-1232)  Bugs ----    * Improve handling of CNAME records in DNS   * Fix
traceback when deleting a user in some configurations (issue #496)   * MUC:
restrict_room_creation could prevent users from joining rooms (issue #458)   *
MUC: fix occasional dropping of iq stanzas sent privately between occupants   *
Fix a potential memory leak in mod_pep  Additions ---------    * Add http:list()
command to telnet to view active HTTP services   * Simplify IPv4/v6 address
selection code for outgoing s2s   * Add support for importing SCRAM hashes from
ejabberd
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1296984 - CVE-2016-1232 prosody: use of weak PRNG in generation of dialback secrets
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296984
  [ 2 ] Bug #1296983 - CVE-2016-1231 prosody: path traversal vulnerability in mod_http_files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296983
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update prosody' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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