[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: drupal-5.9-1.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-6916
2008-07-31 23:44:25
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Name        : drupal
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 5.9
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://www.drupal.org
Summary     : An open-source content-management platform
Description :
Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal is a Content Management
System written in PHP that can support a variety of websites ranging from
personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.  Drupal is highly
configurable, skinnable, and secure.

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Update Information:

Update to 5.9, security fixes:    SA-2008-046 - http://drupal.org/node/286417
CVE-2008-3222 - session fixation issue, that was first reported to be fixed via
SA-2008-044 in drupal 5.8, but the patch for it was not included in the 5.8
tarball.    Remember to log in to your site as the admin user before upgrading
this package. After upgrading the package, browse to
http://host/drupal/update.php to run the upgrade script.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 31 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> - 5.9-1
- Upgrade to 5.9, SA-2008-046.
* Thu Jul 10 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> - 5.8-1
- Upgrade to 5.8, SA-2008-044.
* Mon Feb  4 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> - 5.7-1
- Upgrade to 5.7, several non-security bugs fixed.
* Fri Jan 11 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> - 5.6-1
- Upgrade to 5.6, upstream security fixes.
* Mon Jan  7 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> - 5.5-2
- Include .htaccess file, BZ 427720.
* Mon Dec 10 2007 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> - 5.5-1
- Upgrade to 5.5, critical fixes.
* Thu Dec  6 2007 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> - 5.4-2
- Fix /files -> /var/lib/drupal dir perms, BZ 414761.
* Wed Dec  5 2007 Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> - 5.4-1
- Upgrade to 5.4, advisory ID DRUPAL-SA-2007-031.
- Augmented README regarding symlinks, BZ 254228.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #454849 - drupal: multiple drupal issues in < 6.3,5.8 (SA-2008-044)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454849
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update drupal' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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