[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-1.fc12

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Tue Feb 16 13:07:39 UTC 2010


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-1855
2010-02-16 10:41:39
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Name        : gnome-screensaver
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 2.28.3
Release     : 1.fc12
URL         : http://www.gnome.org
Summary     : GNOME Screensaver
Description :
gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have
simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop.

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Update Information:

gnome-screensaver can lose its keyboard grab when locked, exposing the system to
intrusion by adding and removing monitors.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Feb 12 2010 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> 2.28.3-1
- Don't lost grab when monitor is hotplugged repeatedly
  (CVE-2010-0422, #564464)
- Fix screen dirt in floaters screensavers
* Mon Feb  8 2010 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> 2.28.2-1
- Don't lose grab when monitor is removed
  (CVE-2010-0414, #562217))
* Fri Jan 29 2010 Jon McCann <jmccann at redhat.com> 2.28.1-2
- Try again
* Fri Jan 29 2010 Jon McCann <jmccann at redhat.com> 2.28.1-1
- Update to 2.28.1
* Fri Dec 11 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> 2.28.0-8
- Properly handle cmdline parsing errors in popsquares (#546656)
* Thu Dec  3 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> 2.28.0-7
- Drop an unwanted dependency
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #564464 - CVE-2010-0422 gnome-screensaver: loses its unlock dialog and keyboard grab sometimes when plugging and unplugging monitor repeatedly
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564464
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gnome-screensaver' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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