[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libproxy-0.4.10-1.fc18
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Sun Nov 11 02:55:49 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-16383
2012-10-18 03:28:11
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Name : libproxy
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 0.4.10
Release : 1.fc18
URL : http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/
Summary : A library handling all the details of proxy configuration
Description :
libproxy offers the following features:
* extremely small core footprint (< 35K)
* no external dependencies within libproxy core
(libproxy plugins may have dependencies)
* only 3 functions in the stable external API
* dynamic adjustment to changing network topology
* a standard way of dealing with proxy settings across all scenarios
* a sublime sense of joy and accomplishment
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Update Information:
* Fix http chunk encoded PAC that was broken in previous release
* Add HTTP client unit test
* Fix coding style issues
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #864417 - CVE-2012-4504 libproxy: long proxy.pac file handling buffer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864417
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libproxy' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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