[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: libsocialweb-0.25.21-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17746
2012-11-08 01:30:52
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Name        : libsocialweb
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.25.21
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://www.gnome.org/
Summary     : A social network data aggregator
Description :
libsocialweb is a social data server which fetches data from the "social web",
such as your friend's blog posts and photos, upcoming events, recently played
tracks, and pending eBay* auctions. It also provides a service to update
your status on web services which support it, such as MySpace* and Twitter*.

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Update Information:

CVE-2012-4511: libsocialweb untrusted connection to flickr

The libsocialweb library is prone to a security vulnerability that allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.

Remote attackers can exploit this issue to gain access to sensitive information or modify the integrity of user accounts. Other attacks are also possible. 

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Oct 16 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> 0.25.21-1
- update to 0.25.21. Fixes CVE-2012-4511, RHBZ 865126
* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.25.20-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Mar  7 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> - 0.25.20-3
- fix gnome-keyring deps
* Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.25.20-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Nov 12 2011 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> 0.25.20-1
- update to 0.25.20. Fixes CVE-2011-4129, RHBZ 752022
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #863206 - CVE-2012-4511 libsocialweb: connects with flickr server without user permission
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863206
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libsocialweb' 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
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