[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: gnome-screensaver-2.20.0-12.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-3017
2008-04-08 23:48:04
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Name        : gnome-screensaver
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 2.20.0
Release     : 12.fc8
URL         : http://www.gnome.org
Summary     : GNOME Screensaver
Description :
gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have
simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop.

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Update Information:

Update for advisory CVE-2008-0887
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr  2 2008 Jon McCann <jmccann at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-12
- Address CVE-2008-0887 (bug 440256)
* Fri Mar 28 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-11
- Address CVE-2007-6389 (bug 426170)
* Mon Nov 12 2007 Dan Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-10
- Add pam_selinux_permit to pam config so that xguest will work properly
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #435773 - CVE-2008-0887 gnome-screensaver using NIS auth will unlock if NIS goes away
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435773
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gnome-screensaver' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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