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Multiple buffer overflow bugs have been found libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.14. If an attacker can trick a user into passing a specially crafted FTP URL or FTP proxy URL to libxml2, it could be possible to execute arbitrary code.
The md5sums of the glib2-2.4.7-1.1 and gtk2-2.4.13-2.1 updates don't match the ones in the announcements I sent out.
A problem with PDF handling was discovered by Chris Evans, and has been fixed. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (https://www.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0888 to this issue.
Chris Evans and others discovered a number of integer overflow bugs that affected all versions of xpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened.
Previous tzdata-2004e-1.fc2 announcement from 2004-10-12 had wrong md5sums (before signing).
This update is equivalent to the Fedora Core 3 version of OpenOffice.org. The changes since the previous version of OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 are too numerous to list here, but there are quite a few notable improvements.
GTK+ 2.4.13 contains many bug fixes, with an emphasis on making the new file chooser work better.
A brown paper bag release -- I missed that 1bpp and 24bpp are also valid for BMP.
A security fix [CAN-2004-0755]. ruby-1.8.1-cgi_session_perms.patch: sets the permission of the session data file to 0600. (#130063)
The w3m program is a pager (or text file viewer) that can also be usedas a text-mode Web browser.
Chris Evans discovered a number of integer overflow bugs that affect libtiff. An attacker who has the ability to trick a user into opening a malicious TIFF file could cause the application linked to libtiff to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
This update fixes the bug that catches the wrong values of bpp in the BMP plugin.
K3b provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVDburning tasks. While the experienced user can take influence in allsteps of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in theautomatic settings and the reasonable k3b defaults which allow a quickstart.
when renaming users, ensure that groups forget about the old user name (#135280)
Backport fix for CAN-2004-0918 (Remote Denial of Service attack)
This update fixes many bugs, mostly in the LDAP backend and the Python bindings.
This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around the world.
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful imagecomposition and editing program, which can be extremely useful forcreating logos and other graphics for webpages.
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