[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libgpg-error-1.11-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-18814
2013-10-11 01:00:53
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Name        : libgpg-error
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.11
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/
Summary     : Library for error values used by GnuPG components
Description :
This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG
components.  Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt,
pinentry, SmartCard Daemon and possibly more in the future.

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Update Information:

Security update fixing a DoS issue.

It is necessary to update both gnupg2 and libgpg-error.

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr  5 2013 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.11-1
- new upstream release
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.10-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1015685 - CVE-2013-4402 GnuPG: infinite recursion in the compressed packet parser DoS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015685
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libgpg-error' 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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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