[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: colord-0.1.15-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-16453
2011-11-26 22:22:03
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Name        : colord
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.1.15
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/
Summary     : Color daemon
Description :
colord is a low level system activated daemon that maps color devices
to color profiles in the system context.

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Update Information:

- New upstream version
- This release fixes an important security bug: CVE-2011-4349.
- Do not crash the daemon if adding the device to the db failed
- Fix a memory leak when getting properties from a device
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Nov 26 2011 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.15-1
- New upstream version
- This release fixes an important security bug: CVE-2011-4349.
- Do not crash the daemon if adding the device to the db failed
- Fix a memory leak when getting properties from a device
* Tue Nov  1 2011 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.14-1
- New upstream version
- Remove upstreamed patches
* Mon Oct 17 2011 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.13-2
- Backport a patch from upstream to allow all the colorimeter devices
  to work, even without a native driver.
- Require color-filesystem explicitly rather than getting it from the
  shared-color-profiles package.
* Mon Oct  3 2011 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.13-1
- New upstream version
- Ensure uid 0 can always create devices and profiles
- Reduce the CPU load of clients when assigning profiles
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #757171 - CVE-2011-4349 colord: Multiple SQL injection flaws in database routines processing color device mappings and devices
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757171
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update colord' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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