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Fedora 8 Update: dbus-1.1.2-9.fc8 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora This update fixes CVE-2008-0595.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2070
2008-02-28 21:10:49
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Name        : dbus
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.1.2
Release     : 9.fc8
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/
Summary     : D-BUS message bus
Description :

D-BUS is a system for sending messages between applications. It is
used both for the systemwide message bus service, and as a
per-user-login-session messaging facility.

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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 27 2008 David Zeuthen  - 1.1.2-9.fc8
- CVE-2008-0595
* Thu Oct 25 2007 Bill Nottingham  - 1.1.2-8
- have -libs obsolete older versions of the main package so that yum upgrades work
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #432419 - CVE-2008-0595 dbus security policy circumvention
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432419
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dbus' 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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