[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: amsn-0.98.3-2.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-7378
2010-04-27 00:40:17
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Name        : amsn
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 0.98.3
Release     : 2.fc11
URL         : http://www.amsn-project.net/
Summary     : MSN Messenger clone for Linux, Mac and Windows
Description :
This is an MSN Messenger clone for Unix, Windows, and Macintosh.
It is written in tcl/tk and supports filetransfers, webcam, etc.

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Update Information:

fixes security problem caused by not validating ssl certificates, also add new
features because of a new upstream version.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Apr 24 2010 Sander Hoentjen <sander at hoentjen.eu> - 0.98.3-2
- forgot to remove snapshot binary
- typo fix in changelog
* Sat Apr 24 2010 Sander Hoentjen <sander at hoentjen.eu> - 0.98.3-1
- update to 0.98.3
- check ssl connections (CVE-2010-0744)
- drop upstreamed patches
- add requires on tcl-snack, it is needed for voice-clip support
- since we need snack anyway, use it for all audio and drop requirement on alsa-utils
* Wed Nov 25 2009 Sander Hoentjen <sander at hoentjen.eu> - 0.98.1-2
- songbird plugin had a python exception when songbird
  was not installed (bug #539422)
- Do not own hicolor (bug #502575)
* Thu Nov  5 2009 Sander Hoentjen <sander at hoentjen.eu> - 0.98.1-1
- Update to new upstream
- drop patches that are now upstream
- voice support
- upnp support
* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.97.2-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #572232 - CVE-2010-0744 aMSN: Improper SSL certificate validation (MITM) when connecting to the MSN server
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572232
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update amsn' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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