[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: vnc-4.1.3-1.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-0991
2009-01-27 00:36:37
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Name        : vnc
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 4.1.3
Release     : 1.fc10
URL         : http://www.realvnc.com
Summary     : A remote display system
Description :
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which
allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the
machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and
from a wide variety of machine architectures.  This package contains a
client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC
server.

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Update Information:

Update to 4.1.3 maintenance release which contains fix for CVE-2008-4770
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 26 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.3-1
- updated to 4.1.3 (CVE-2008-4770)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #480590 - CVE-2008-4770 vnc: vncviewer insufficient encoding value validation in CMsgReader::readRect
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480590
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update vnc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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