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Fedora Core 5 Update: gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j host button and print out memory.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-1467
2006-12-15
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : gdm
Version     : 2.14.11
Release     : 1.fc5
Summary     : The GNOME Display Manager.
Description :
Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable
reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log
into your system with the X Window System running and supports running
several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time.

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Update Information:

Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID
CVE-2006-6105.  This fixes a problem where a user can
enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j
host button and print out memory. 
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* Fri Dec 15 2006 Matthias Clasen  - 1:2.14.11-1
- Update to 2.14.11, which fixes CVE-2006-6105
- Drop upstreamed patches
* Thu Jun  8 2006 Ray Strode  - 1:2.14.10-1
- Update to 2.14.10
* Thu Jun  8 2006 Ray Strode  - 1:2.14.9-1
- Update to 2.14.9
- Fixes autologin problem (bug 195014).
* Thu Jun  8 2006 Ray Strode  - 1:2.14.8-1
- Update to 2.14.8
- Fixes CVE-2006-2452 (bug 343476).
* Wed Jun  7 2006 Ray Strode  - 1:2.14.4-1.fc5.3
- Add BuildRequires on xorg-x11-server-Xorg (bug 194295)
* Tue Jun  6 2006 Matthias Clasen  - 1:2.14.4-1.fc.2
- Require system-logos, not fedora-logos
- Add missing BuildRequires

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

5e88148d3c4a3f6559fa38d31cb7fde6ce35621c  SRPMS/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.src.rpm
5e88148d3c4a3f6559fa38d31cb7fde6ce35621c  noarch/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.src.rpm
ef7241475d123ab982add4c79cc638ec7041e36c  ppc/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.ppc.rpm
055bcfcd9a9e35842db1b7f12ce951442003498b  ppc/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.11-1.fc5.ppc.rpm
318baf29dfaa15b838af076b26452fcf92f061ec  x86_64/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
719f0e00272f843cd62122eda1d2669454a04669  x86_64/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.11-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
1537e747a82c582081ccac330ad99428069fa797  i386/gdm-2.14.11-1.fc5.i386.rpm
b3a40b2f38fd33cf237f7f2359cd6db67a614983  i386/debug/gdm-debuginfo-2.14.11-1.fc5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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