[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: moin-1.5.8-3.fc8

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Wed Feb 13 04:56:56 UTC 2008


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-1486
2008-02-13 04:13:37
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Name        : moin
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.5.8
Release     : 3.fc8
URL         : http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
Summary     : MoinMoin is a Python clone of WikiWiki
Description :
A WikiWikiWeb is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis on
easy access to and modification of information. MoinMoin is a Python
WikiClone that allows you to easily set up your own wiki, only requiring a
Web server and a Python installation.

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Update Information:

It was discovered that moin allowed to overwrite arbitrary files writable by the
user running moin using a crafted cookie with certain user IDs via a directory
traversal flaw. This updated package fixes this issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Feb  8 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.5.8-3
- Include e69a16b6e630 1.5 changeset as cookieidfix (#432017).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #432017 - moin: file overwrite via crafted cookie
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432017
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update moin' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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