[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: rpm-4.8.1-2.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-9829
2010-06-14 16:39:47
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Name        : rpm
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 4.8.1
Release     : 2.fc13
URL         : http://www.rpm.org/
Summary     : The RPM package management system
Description :
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.

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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 30 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.8.1-2
- plug a tiny race on sbit/capability removal
* Mon Jun 14 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.8.1-1
- update to 4.8.1 (http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.8.1)
- drop no longer needed patches
- fix source url pointing to testing directory
- fixes CVE-2010-2059 / #598934
- fixes #532992, #578299, #587755, #590588, #593553, #597835, #598988
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #598775 - CVE-2010-2059 rpm: fails to drop SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade or removal
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598775
  [ 2 ] Bug #601955 - CVE-2010-2198 rpm: fails to drop POSIX file capabilities/SELinux context information on package upgrade or removal
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601955
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update rpm' 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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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