[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: mailx-12.5-9.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-17277
2014-12-19 17:11:14
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Name        : mailx
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 12.5
Release     : 9.fc19
URL         : http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html
Summary     : Enhanced implementation of the mailx command
Description :
Mailx is an enhanced mail command, which provides the functionality
of the POSIX mailx command, as well as SysV mail and Berkeley Mail
(from which it is derived).

Additionally to the POSIX features, mailx can work with Maildir/ e-mail
storage format (as well as mailboxes), supports IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
protocols (including over SSL) to operate with remote hosts, handles mime
types and different charsets. There are a lot of other useful features,
see mailx(1).

And as its ancient analogues, mailx can be used as a mail script language,
both for sending and receiving mail.

Besides the "mailx" command, this package provides "mail" and "Mail"
(which should be compatible with its predecessors from the mailx-8.x source),
as well as "nail" (the initial name of this project).

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Dec 17 2014 jchaloup <jchaloup at redhat.com> - 12.5-9
- Security fix for CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844
  resolves: #1174903
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1162783 - CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 mailx: command execution flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162783
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update mailx' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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