[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: rb_libtorrent-0.12.1-2.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-6619
2009-06-18 11:02:14
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Name        : rb_libtorrent
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 0.12.1
Release     : 2.fc9
URL         : http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/
Summary     : A C++ BitTorrent library aiming to be the best alternative
Description :
rb_libtorrent is a C++ library that aims to be a good alternative to all
the other BitTorrent implementations around. It is a library and not a full
featured client, although it comes with a few working example clients.

Its main goals are to be very efficient (in terms of CPU and memory usage) as
well as being very easy to use both as a user and developer.

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Update Information:

This release adds an upstream patch to fix a directory traversal vulnerability
which would allow a remote attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a
".." (dot dot) and partial relative pathname in a specially-crafted torrent.
In addition to this, asio-devel has been added to the dependencies for the
rb_libtorrent-devel package - a fix already applied to the Fedora 10, 11, and
Development ("Rawhide") packages.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Jun 14 2009 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 0.12.1-2
- Apply backported upstream patch to fix CVE-2009-1760 (arbitrary file
  overwrite vulnerability):
  + 0.12-CVE-2009-1760.diff
- Fixes security bug #505523.
- Add asio-devel as runtime dependency for the devel subpackage (#478589)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #505523 - CVE-2009-1760 rb_libtorrent: arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505523
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update rb_libtorrent' at the command line.
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