A binutils security update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-498
2005-06-29
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : binutils
Version : 2.15.94.0.2.2
Release : 2.1
Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities.
Description :
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an
object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).
A binutils security update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-497
2005-06-29
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : binutils
Version : 2.15.92.0.2
Release : 5.1
Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities.
Description :
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).
A selinux-policy-targeted update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-485
2005-06-29
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : selinux-policy-targeted
Version : 1.23.18
Release : 17
Summary : SELinux targeted policy configuration
Description :
Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux
kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement
, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.
This package contains the SELinux example policy configuration along with the Flask configuration information and the application configuration files.
New selinux-policy-targeted packages are available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-486
2005-06-29
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : selinux-policy-targeted
Version : 1.17.30
Release : 3.15
Summary : SELinux targeted policy configuration
Description :
Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux
kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement
, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.
This package contains the SELinux example policy configuration along with the Flask configuration information and the application configuration files.
An Openoffice.org update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-492
2005-06-29
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : openoffice.org
Version : 1.9.112
Release : 1.1.0.fc4
Summary : OpenOffice.org comprehensive office suite.
Description :
OpenOffice.org is an Open Source, community-developed, multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, formula editor and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Office.
Usage: Simply type "ooffice" to run OpenOffice.org or select the requested component (Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, etc.) from your desktop menu. On first start a few files will be installed in the user's home, if necessary.
The OpenOffice.org team hopes you enjoy working with OpenOffice.org!
Note: Non-.vor templates covered under the GPL license.
A libwpd security update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-489
2005-06-29
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : libwpd
Version : 0.8.2
Release : 1.fc4
Summary : Library for reading and converting WordPerfect(tm)
documents.
Description :
Library that handles Word Perfect documents.
An openssh update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-490
2005-06-28
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : openssh
Version : 3.9p1
Release : 8.0.2
Summary : The OpenSSH implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2.
Description :
SSH (Secure SHell) is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
OpenSSH is OpenBSD's version of the last free version of SSH, bringing it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing all patented algorithms to separate libraries.
This package includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH client and server. To make this package useful, you should also install openssh-clients, openssh-server, or both.
A gnome-panel update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-490
2005-06-28
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : gnome-panel
Version : 2.10.1
Release : 10.1
Summary : GNOME panel
Description :
The GNOME panel provides the window list, workspace switcher, menus, and other features for the GNOME desktop.
A selinux-policy-targeted update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-467
2005-06-27
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : selinux-policy-targeted
Version : 1.17.30
Release : 3.13
Summary : SELinux targeted policy configuration
Description :
Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux
kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement
, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.
This package contains the SELinux example policy configuration along with the Flask configuration information and the application configuration files.
A gzip update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-471
2005-06-27
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : gzip
Version : 1.3.3
Release : 15.fc3
Summary : The GNU data compression program.
Description :
The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.
Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a very commonly used data compression program.
A gedit update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-403
2005-06-26
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : gedit
Version : 2.10.2
Release : 4
Summary : gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME.
Description :
gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions.
You'll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit.
A gedit security update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-402
2005-06-26
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : gedit
Version : 2.8.1
Release : 2.fc3.1
Summary : gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME.
Description :
gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions.
You'll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit.
A HelixPlayer security update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-484
2005-06-25
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : HelixPlayer
Version : 1.0.5
Release : 0.fc3.2
Summary : Open source media player based on the Helix framework
Description :
The Helix Player 1.0 is an open-source media player built in the Helix Community for consumers. Built using GTK, it plays open source formats, like Ogg Vorbis and Theora using the powerful Helix DNA Client Media Engine.
A HelixPlayer security update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-483
2005-06-25
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : HelixPlayer
Version : 1.0.5
Release : 1.fc4.2
Summary : Open source media player based on the Helix framework
Description :
The Helix Player 1.0 is an open-source media player built in the Helix Community for consumers. Built using GTK, it plays open source formats, like Ogg Vorbis and Theora using the powerful Helix DNA Client Media Engine.
A kernel update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Security Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-412
2005-06-24
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.11
Release : 1.35_FC3
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.
A NetworkManager update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-481
2005-06-24
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : NetworkManager
Version : 0.4
Release : 18.FC4
Summary : Network link manager and user applications
Description :
NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended for usage on servers. The point of NetworkManager is to make networking configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. If using HCP, NetworkManager is _intended_ to replace default routes, obtain IP addresses from a DHCP server, and change nameservers whenever it sees fit.
A hwdata update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-479
2005-06-22
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : hwdata
Version : 0.158.1
Release : 1
Summary : Hardware identification and configuration data
Description :
hwdata contains various hardware identification and configuration data, such as the pci.ids database, the X.org Cards and MonitorsDb databases.
A sudo update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-472
2005-06-21
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : sudo
Version : 1.6.7p5
Release : 30.3
Summary : Allows restricted root access for specified users.
Description :
Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features include: the ability to restrict what commands a user may run on a per-host basis, copious logging of each command (providing a clear audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout of the sudo command, and the ability to use the same configuration file (sudoers) on many different machines.
An ImageMagick update is available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-477
2005-06-21
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : ImageMagick
Version : 6.2.2.0
Release : 3.fc4.0
Summary : An X application for displaying and manipulating images.
Description :
ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed work in the original format or a different one. ImageMagick also includes command line programs for creating animated or transparent .gifs, creating composite images, creating thumbnail images, and more.
ImageMagick is one of your choices if you need a program to manipulate and dis play images. If you want to develop your own applications which use ImageMagick code or APIs, you need to install ImageMagick-devel as well.
A ruby update is available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-475
2005-06-22
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : ruby
Version : 1.8.2
Release : 7.fc4.2
Summary : An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language
Description :
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
