[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: apr-util-1.3.9-1.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8349
2009-08-07 04:36:29
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Name        : apr-util
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.3.9
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://apr.apache.org/
Summary     : Apache Portable Runtime Utility library
Description :
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a
free library of C data structures and routines.  This library
contains additional utility interfaces for APR; including support
for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing and more.

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Update Information:

CVE-2009-2412: allocator alignment fixes    Full details here:
http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/patches/
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug  6 2009 Bojan Smojver <bojan at rexursive.com> - 1.3.9-1
- bump up to 1.3.9
- CVE-2009-2412
- allocator alignment fixes
- disable DBM-drivers-as-DSO support
* Mon Jun  8 2009 Bojan Smojver <bojan at rexursive.com> - 1.3.7-1
- bump up to 1.3.7
- CVE-2009-0023
- "billion laughs" fix of apr_xml_* interface
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #515698 - CVE-2009-2412 apr, apr-util: Integer overflows in memory pool (apr) and relocatable memory (apr-util) management
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515698
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