[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: tqsllib-2.0-5.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-0543
2009-01-14 23:38:30
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Name        : tqsllib
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.0
Release     : 5.fc9
URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/trustedqsl/
Summary     : The TrustedQSL library
Description :
The TrustedQSL library is used for generating digitally signed
QSO records (records of Amateur Radio contacts). This package
contains the library and configuration files needed to run
TrustedQSL applications.

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Update Information:

The TrustedQSL library incorrectly checked the result after  calling the
EVP_VerifyFinal function, allowing a malformed signature to be treated as a good
signature rather than as an error. Package includes a patch to fix
EVP_VerifyFinal result check.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 12 2009 Lucian Langa <cooly at gnome.eu.org> - 2.0-5
- modify patch0 to include fix for #479650 (CVE-2008-5077 related)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #479650 - tqsllib: OpenSSL incorrect checks for malformed signatures
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479650
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update tqsllib' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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