[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: gnome-keyring-3.4.1-3.fc17
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Tue Sep 4 22:58:19 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-12368
2012-08-21 09:29:37
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Name : gnome-keyring
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 3.4.1
Release : 3.fc17
URL : http://www.gnome.org
Summary : Framework for managing passwords and other secrets
Description :
The gnome-keyring session daemon manages passwords and other types of
secrets for the user, storing them encrypted with a main password.
Applications can use the gnome-keyring library to integrate with the keyring.
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Update Information:
GPG agent did not respect cache expiry settings. Backported patch to fix this issue.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Aug 15 2012 Stef Walter <stefw at redhat.com> - 3.4.1-3
- Fix for minor security issue:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681081
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #845426 - CVE-2012-3466 gnome-keyring: improper caching of passwords/passphrase
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845426
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gnome-keyring' 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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