[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: plib-1.8.5-8.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17517
2012-11-02 18:32:52
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Name        : plib
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.8.5
Release     : 8.fc18
URL         : http://plib.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Set of portable libraries especially useful for games
Description :
This is a set of OpenSource (LGPL) libraries that will permit programmers
to write games and other realtime interactive applications that are 100%
portable across a wide range of hardware and operating systems. Here is
what you need - it's all free and available with LGPL'ed source code on
the web. All of it works well together.

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Update Information:

- Fix a bufferoverflow in _ssgParser::error() (CVE-2012-4552)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #871187 - CVE-2012-4552 plib: stack-based buffer overflow in the error function in ssg/ssgParser.cxx
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871187
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update plib' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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