[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: konversation-1.0.1-4.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2122
2008-04-08 23:41:29
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Name        : konversation
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 1.0.1
Release     : 4.fc7
URL         : http://konversation.kde.org
Summary     : Konversation is a user friendly IRC client for KDE
Description :
A simple and easy to use IRC client for KDE with support for
strikeout; multi-channel joins; away / unaway messages;
ignore list functionality; (experimental) support for foreign
language characters; auto-connect to server; optional timestamps
to chat windows; configurable background colors and much more

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Update Information:

removes /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts/media which can be used to execute
commands via carefully crafted media
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb  7 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 1.0.1-4
- remove /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts/media for CVE-2007-4400
* Tue Aug 28 2007 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 1.0.1-3
- clarify license GPLv2+, and rebuild for F8
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #253545 - CVE-2007-4400 konversation: Command injection in media script via crafted song tag
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253545
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update konversation' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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