[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: neon-0.28.3-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7661
2008-10-16 00:44:23
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Name        : neon
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 0.28.3
Release     : 1.fc9
URL         : http://www.webdav.org/neon/
Summary     : An HTTP and WebDAV client library
Description :
neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface;
providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along
with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling.  neon
supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and
Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.

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Update Information:

This update includes the latest release of neon, fixing a security issue in the
Digest authentication domain parameter support.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug 28 2008 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> 0.28.3-1
- update to 0.28.3 (CVE-2008-3746, #460415)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #459620 - CVE-2008-3746 neon: NULL ptr dereference in the Digest authentication support (DoS possible)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459620
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update neon' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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