[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: yum-3.4.3-31.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-2789
2013-02-21 04:51:54
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Name        : yum
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 3.4.3
Release     : 31.fc17
URL         : http://yum.baseurl.org/
Summary     : RPM package installer/updater/manager
Description :
Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and
install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded
automatically, prompting the user for permission as necessary.

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Update Information:

Fix a DOS attack (maybe more) by a bad Fedora mirror on repo. metadata.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 19 2013 James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> - 3.4.3-32
- Fix non-removal of corrupt metadata files. BZ 908870.
* Mon Jan  7 2013 Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas at redhat.com> - 3.4.3-31
- ui_id: prevent TB on invalid repos with no URLs.  BZ 870691.
* Mon Nov 12 2012 Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas at redhat.com> - 3.4.3-30
- update to HEAD as of Oct 16 2012 (just before --downloadonly
  and yum-cron changes)
- Fixes BZ 832166, 826419, 854974, 858632, 856969, 861264, 864018, 864294,
  864643, 864717, 864717, 859202.
* Tue Aug 28 2012 Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas at redhat.com> - 3.4.3-29
- update to latest HEAD.
- new groups code
- lots of bugfixes
* Mon Jun 25 2012 Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas at redhat.com> - 3.4.3-28
- update to latest HEAD.
- No async downloading when --cacheonly.  BZ 830523.
- compare mtime without sub second precision. BZ 831918
- show_lock_owner: report errors if we fail.  BZ 745281
- quote uids to keep cachedir ascii-clean.  BZ 832195
- A solution to the obsoletes but don't provide problem. BZ 834530
- completion-helper: use the system cachedir
* Fri Jun  8 2012 James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> - 3.4.3-27
- update to latest HEAD.
- Fix for ppc64p7 detection.
* Thu Jun  7 2012 Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas at redhat.com> - 3.4.3-26
- update to latest HEAD
- more completion helper patches
- parallel downloading of packages and metadata
- revert a hack that probably caused BZ 829505
* Thu May 31 2012 Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas at redhat.com> - 3.4.3-25
- backported completion-helper.py patches from HEAD, BZ 809469.
* Fri Apr 27 2012 James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> - 3.4.3-24
- Add code for arm detection.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update yum' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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