[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: weechat-0.3.8-4.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18494
2012-11-19 19:26:49
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Name        : weechat
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.3.8
Release     : 4.fc18
URL         : http://weechat.org
Summary     : Portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client
Description :
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a portable, fast, light and
extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard.
It is customizable and extensible with scripts.

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Update Information:

Fix arbitrary code execution due to call of shell when executing command within hook_process
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #878025 - CVE-2012-5534 weechat (scripts / plug-ins): Arbitrary code execution due to call of shell when executing command within hook_process
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878025
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update weechat' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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