[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: blam-1.8.3-9.fc7

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Mon Nov 26 18:57:28 UTC 2007


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3792
2007-11-26 18:57:24.020995
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Name        : blam
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 1.8.3
Release     : 9.fc7
URL         : http://www.cmartin.tk/blam.html
Summary     : An RSS/RDF feed reader
Description :
Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing
number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you
subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to
use and clean interface to stay up to date

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Update Information:

This update resolves a low severity security issue where LD_LIBRARY_PATH could potentially get set to the current directory if it wasn't set before Blam was launched.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 22 2007 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 1.8.3-9
- Fix CVE-2005-4790 (bug 252294).
* Wed Nov 21 2007 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 1.8.3-8
- Rebuild for new Gecko (Firefox 2.0.0.9).
* Wed Oct 24 2007 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 1.8.3-7
- Rebuild for updated Gecko libraries (Firefox 2.0.0.8)
* Fri Aug 17 2007 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 1.8.3-6
- Add gnome-sharp and mono-web runtime dependencies; fixes bugs 282331 (Blam
  does not open links with commas correctly) and 277561 (Blam does nothing
  useful).
- Update License tag in accordance with new guidelines.
* Wed Jul 18 2007 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 1.8.3-5
- Rebuild for newer Gecko libraries (Firefox 2.0.0.5)
- Depend on the gecko-libs and gecko-devel virtuals, instead of querying RPM
  at build-time (Thanks to Chris Aillon for the fix.)
- Alphabetize dependencies, and other minor aesthetic-only spec changes.
* Wed May 30 2007 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 1.8.3-4
- Rebuild for newer Gecko libraries (Firefox 2.0.0.4)
- Add a patch to fix the default theme directory search path to prevent crashes
  at startup (fixes bug 241465):
  + fix-THEME_DIR-path.patch
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #395751 - CVE-2005-4790 tomboy includes CWD in LD_LIBRARY_PATH [f7]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=395751
  [ 2 ] Bug #393691 - blam blocks firefox update to 2.0.0.9
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393691
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Updated packages:

7bc7f1f01d672abaa13f4a2e4c02a8c01a1f1c2e blam-1.8.3-9.fc7.i386.rpm
0c9aa73347873be18fca0e9d0accd8a31634fa34 blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-9.fc7.i386.rpm
5a05537c6b4aabccd52ec6c308bee3015acb9918 blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-9.fc7.x86_64.rpm
5cc7d651d09410b957605518285581434fe6f626 blam-1.8.3-9.fc7.x86_64.rpm
1c89824bf2ccc11c11406acb32cb3c3d126eaeb2 blam-1.8.3-9.fc7.ppc.rpm
b10961d8e75d2716a1c145667ff753e7717df80f blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-9.fc7.ppc.rpm
4413684e045f0c2fa88816ce4fce6064e11bf91a blam-1.8.3-9.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update blam' 
at the command line.  For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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