[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: gnome-screensaver-2.18.2-3.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2818
2008-04-01 21:08:20
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Name        : gnome-screensaver
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 2.18.2
Release     : 3.fc7
URL         : http://www.gnome.org
Summary     : GNOME Screensaver
Description :
gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have
simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop.

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Update Information:

This update addresses CVE-2007-6389 a flaw where the contents of the user's
clipboard can be accessed from the "Leave Message" feature within the lock
screen dialog.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar 28 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 2.18.2-3
- Address CVE-2007-6389 (bug 426169)
* Mon Jul  9 2007 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 2.18.2-2
- add build requires to fix fade in animation (bug 247485)
* Tue May 29 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.18.2-1
- Update to 2.18.2
- Drop upstreamed patches
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #426169 - CVE-2007-6389 gnome-screensaver clipboard content leak [7]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426169
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gnome-screensaver' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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