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Fedora 7 Update: po4a-0.32-4.fc7 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora This update fixes a potential security problem (information leak) due to use of predictable name in /tmp. There is no CVE assignment yet
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-1763
2007-08-23 22:36:58.989343
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Name        : po4a
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 0.32
Release     : 4.fc7
Summary     : A tool maintaining translations anywhere
Description :
The po4a (po for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and
more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext
tools on areas where they were not expected like documentation.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a potential security problem (information leak)
due to use of predictable name in /tmp. There is no CVE assignment yet

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 20 2007 Axel Thimm  - 0.32-4
- Update to 0.32.
- fixes a possible race condition under /tmp (no CVE yet).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #253541
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253541
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Updated packages:

164759901e0d9a23b3ad81a8921e198342d78528 po4a-0.32-4.fc7.noarch.rpm
f3bd90753e7d70207fa131532652fd15f9573003 po4a-0.32-4.fc7.src.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://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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