[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: libsilc-1.1.8-7.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-9342
2009-09-06 20:08:02
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Name        : libsilc
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.1.8
Release     : 7.fc11
URL         : http://www.silcnet.org/
Summary     : SILC Client Library
Description :
SILC Client Library libraries for clients to connect to SILC networks.

SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides
secure conferencing services on the Internet over insecure channel.

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Sep  4 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-7
- Backport patch to fix stack corruption (CVE-2008-7160) (#521256)
* Fri Sep  4 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-6
- Backport patch to fix additional string format vulnerabilities (#515648)
* Wed Aug  5 2009 Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> 1.1.8-5
- Backport patch to fix string format vulnerability (#515648)
* Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.8-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #515648 - libsilc: format string vulnerability in client entry handling
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515648
  [ 2 ] Bug #521256 - CVE-2008-7160 libsilc: stack corruption in SilcHttpServer on 64bit archs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521256
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libsilc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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