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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-6750
2011-05-09 03:26:46
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Name        : apr
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.4.5
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : http://apr.apache.org/
Summary     : Apache Portable Runtime library
Description :
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a
free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system
portability layer to as many operating systems as possible,
including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2.

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Update Information:

Various bug fixes since 1.4.2.

Security: CVE-2011-0419
Reimplement apr_fnmatch() from scratch using a non-recursive
algorithm; now has improved compliance with the fnmatch() spec.

Note: 1.4.3 was never officially released.

Release -2 should fix top_builddir problem from -1.

Fix CVE-2011-1928 introduced in 1.4.4.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri May 20 2011 Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> - 1.4.5-1
- bump up to 1.4.5
* Tue May 10 2011 Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> - 1.4.4-2
- fix top_builddir in apr_rules.mk
* Mon May  9 2011 Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> - 1.4.4-1
- bump up to 1.4.4
- CVE-2011-0419
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #703390 - CVE-2011-0419 apr: unconstrained recursion in apr_fnmatch
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703390
  [ 2 ] Bug #706203 - CVE-2011-1928 apr: DoS flaw in apr_fnmatch() due to fix
 for CVE-2011-0419
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706203
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update apr' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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