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Fedora 8 Update: amarok-1.4.10-1.fc8 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora Amarok 1.4.10 has been released to fix a security problem. For more information please see http://amarok.kde.org/en/node/535/ Please update.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7719
2008-09-05 11:03:20
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Name        : amarok
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.4.10
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://amarok.kde.org
Summary     : Media player
Description :
Amarok is a multimedia player with:
 - fresh playlist concept, very fast to use, with drag and drop
 - plays all formats supported by the various engines
 - audio effects, like reverb and compressor
 - compatible with the .m3u and .pls formats for playlists
 - nice GUI, integrates into the KDE look, but with a unique touch


Amarok can use various engines to decode sound : helix and xine.
To use the helix engine, you need to install either HelixPlayer
or RealPlayer

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Update Information:

Amarok 1.4.10 has been released to fix a security problem.  For more information
please see http://amarok.kde.org/en/node/535/  Please update.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 13 2008 Rex Dieter  - 1.4.10-1
- amarok-1.4.10
* Wed Jun 11 2008 Dennis Gilmore  - 1.4.9.1-4
- we are building sparc32 as sparcv9 not sparc now  fix ifnarch
* Fri May  2 2008 Rex Dieter  - 1.4.9.1-3
- fix libnjb support (#444940)
* Thu May  1 2008 Rex Dieter  - 1.4.9.1-2.1
- --with-libvisual fedora-only (epel misses libvisual-plugins)
* Thu Apr 17 2008 Rex Dieter  - 1.4.9.1-2
- specfile typo (unclosed macro)
* Tue Apr 15 2008 Rex Dieter  - 1.4.9.1-1
- amarok-1.4.9.1
* Wed Mar 12 2008 Rex Dieter  - 1.4.8-5
- -konqueror: drop Obsoletes: %name < 1.4.8-4 , which breaks 
  multilib upgrades (#436578)
* Thu Feb 21 2008 Rex Dieter  - 1.4.8-4
- -konqueror subpkg (#426803)
- fix multiarch conflicts (#340641)
  drop Provides: amarok-devel (f9+), add Obsoletes: amarok-devel
- gcc43 patch (#433904)
* Mon Feb 18 2008 Fedora Release Engineering  - 1.4.8-3
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
* Wed Jan  9 2008 Rex Dieter  1.4.8-2
- f9+: don't build/include konq(3) side bar support
* Thu Dec 20 2007 Rex Dieter  1.4.8-1
- amarok-1.4.8
* Fri Dec  7 2007 Alex Lancaster  1.4.7-14
- Rebuild for new openssl
* Thu Nov 29 2007 Rex Dieter  1.4.7-13
- fix --with-mp4v2 handling (#346011#c5,6)
* Thu Nov 29 2007 Rex Dieter  1.4.7-12
- --with-mp4v2 (#346011#c3)
- fix asf/wma support (rh#346011,kde#151733)
* Wed Nov 21 2007 Rex Dieter  1.4.7-11
- dynamic mode floods playlist ... (kde #148317)
* Wed Nov 21 2007 Todd Zullinger  1.4.7-10
- rebuild for libgpod-0.6.0
* Tue Nov 20 2007 Rex Dieter  1.4.7-9
- cosmetics (cleanup/sort BR's mostly)
- omit "for KDE" from summary/description
- make gst support toggled by macro (disabled by default)
* Sat Nov 10 2007 Aurelien Bompard  1.4.7-8
- rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #459135 - CVE-2008-3699 amarok: temporary file vulnerability via symlink attacks (priv esc)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459135
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update amarok' 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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