[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: apr-1.4.5-1.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-6918
2011-05-13 22:24:39
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Name        : apr
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 1.4.5
Release     : 1.fc14
URL         : http://apr.apache.org/
Summary     : Apache Portable Runtime library
Description :
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a
free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system
portability layer to as many operating systems as possible,
including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2.

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Update Information:

Move to 1.4.x branch.

Various bug fixes since 1.4.2.

Security: CVE-2011-0419 Reimplement apr_fnmatch() from scratch using a non-recursive algorithm; now has improved compliance with the fnmatch() spec.

Note: 1.4.3 was never officially released.

Fix CVE-2011-1928 introduced in 1.4.4.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri May 20 2011 Bojan Smojver <bojan at rexursive.com> - 1.4.5-1
- bump up to 1.4.5
* Tue May 10 2011 Bojan Smojver <bojan at rexursive.com> - 1.4.4-2
- fix top_builddir in apr_rules.mk
* Mon May  9 2011 Bojan Smojver <bojan at rexursive.com> - 1.4.4-1
- bump up to 1.4.4
- CVE-2011-0419
* Wed Mar  2 2011 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-3
- work around alising issue in ring macros (upstream PR 50190)
- fix buildconf with newer libtool (#670621)
* Mon Feb  7 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.2-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Dec  4 2010 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 1.4.2-1
- update to 1.4.2
- always enable SCTP support (#659815)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #703390 - CVE-2011-0419 apr: unconstrained recursion in apr_fnmatch
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703390
  [ 2 ] Bug #706203 - CVE-2011-1928 apr: DoS flaw in apr_fnmatch() due to fix for CVE-2011-0419
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706203
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update apr' at the command line.
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