[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: xemacs-packages-extra-20070427-2.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-5504
2008-06-20 16:48:27
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Name        : xemacs-packages-extra
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 20070427
Release     : 2.fc8
URL         : http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html
Summary     : Collection of XEmacs lisp packages
Description :
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and
application development system.  It is protected under the GNU General
Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular
GNU Emacs.  Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support
and an open software development model, similar to Linux.

The XEmacs packages collection contains a large collection of useful
lisp packages for XEmacs including mailreaders, programming modes and
utilities, and packages related to using XEmacs in multi-lingual
environments.

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Update Information:

* Wed Jun 18 2008 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 20070427-2  - Apply
upstream security fix for CVE-2008-2142 (#446069).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #446069 - CVE-2008-2142 emacs: fast-lock-mode arbitrary lisp code execution
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446069
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xemacs-packages-extra' 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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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