[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: firebird-2.1.3.18185.0-2.fc10
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Mon Aug 31 23:36:01 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8317
2009-08-07 04:35:53
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Name : firebird
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 2.1.3.18185.0
Release : 2.fc10
URL : http://www.firebirdsql.org/
Summary : SQL relational database management system
Description :
This package contains common files between firebird-classic and
firebird-superserver. You will need this if you want to use either one.
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Update Information:
Upgrade from previous package version may be a problem since previous version
remove /var/run/firebird and it shouldn't This release fix this problem for
future updates If you are in that case (no longer /var/run/firebird directory
after upgrade), just reinstall firebird-2.1.3.18185.0-2 package or create
/var/run/firebird owned by user firebird
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Aug 5 2009 Philippe Makowski <makowski at firebird-fr.eu.org> 2.1.3.18185.0-2
- rename /usr/bin/gstat to /usr/bin/gstat-fb to avoid conflict with ganglia-gmond (rh #515510)
- remove stupid rm -rf in postun
* Thu Jul 30 2009 Philippe Makowski <makowski at firebird-fr.eu.org> 2.1.3.18185.0-1
- Update to 2.1.3.18185
- Fix rh #514463
- Remove doc patch
- Apply backport initscript patch
* Sat Jul 11 2009 Philippe Makowski <makowski at firebird-fr.eu.org> 2.1.2.18118.0-11
- change xinetd script (rh #506528)
- add missing library (and header files) for build php4-interbase module (rh #506728)
- update README.fedora
- automatically created user now have /bin/nologin as shell to make things a little more secure
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #514463 - CVE-2009-2620 firebird-superserver: NULL ptr dereference (DoS) by handling auxiliary connection(s)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514463
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update firebird' 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
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