[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: dbus-1.6.12-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-11198
2013-06-19 03:12:00
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Name        : dbus
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.6.12
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/
Summary     : D-BUS message bus
Description :
D-BUS is a system for sending messages between applications. It is
used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a
per-user-login-session messaging facility.

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Update Information:

Not tested locally yet, I need to spin back up a Fedora 18 VM.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jun 17 2013 Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> - 1:1.6.12-1
- New upstream release
- CVE-2013-2168
* Thu Apr 18 2013 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 1:1.6.8-5
- Hardened build
* Tue Feb  5 2013 Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> - 1:1.6.8-4
- Add patch from Matej Cepl to enable check section, modified by me
  to use common configure opts.
* Sun Oct 14 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> - 1:1.6.8-3
- minor .spec cleanups
- tighten lib deps via %{?_isa}
- drop old Conflicts/Obsoletes/patches
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #974128 - CVE-2013-2168 dbus: Crash of system services that use libdbus (DoS) due to non-portable use of va_list in UNIX format string wrapper [fedora-18]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974128
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dbus' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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