[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-7822
2011-06-03 05:02:49
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Name        : gdm
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 3.0.4
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm
Summary     : The GNOME Display Manager
Description :
GDM provides the graphical login screen, shown shortly after boot up,
log out, and when user-switching.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a flaw that can lead to web browser at the login screen if policykit policies are changed to be more restrictive than defaults.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 31 2011 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> 3.0.4-1
- Update to latest version
  Resolves CVE-2011-1709
* Thu May 12 2011 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> 3.0.0-4
- Make power off icon symbolic
  Resolves: #704033
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #709508 - CVE-2011-1709 gdm: URI scheme handling change in glib2 allows running default browser in GDM session [fedora-15]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709508
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gdm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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