[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: irssi-0.8.15-1.fc11

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-6618
2010-04-15 02:29:43
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Name        : irssi
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 0.8.15
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://irssi.org/
Summary     : Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting
Description :
Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode
frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer
being maintained.

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Update Information:

This release fixes two security issues: The first being that Irssi didn't check
hostname on SSL connections and the other being a hard to exploit remote crash
bug.    For a complete listing of the changes and bugfixes since 0.8.14, please
have a look at the http://irssi.org/news/ChangeLog
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 13 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 0.8.15-1
- Update to new version: irssi-0.8.15
* Fri Dec  4 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 0.8.14-4
- rebuild against perl 5.10.1
* Fri Aug 21 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> - 0.8.14-3
- rebuilt with new openssl
* Tue Aug 11 2009 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 0.8.14-2
- Use bzipped upstream tarball.
* Mon Aug  3 2009 Marek Mahut <mmahut at fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.14-1
- Upstream release 0.8.14
* Tue Jun 23 2009 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas at redhat.com> - 0.8.13-2
- Resolve CVE-2009-1959
* Fri May  1 2009 Marek Mahut <mmahut at fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.13-1
- Upstream release
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #581549 - irssi 0.8.15 fixes two security issues
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581549
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update irssi' 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
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