Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: abiword

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Please QA and report to bugzilla.

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORALEGACY-2004-1906
Bugzilla https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1906
2004-10-22
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Name          : abiword
Version (7.3) : 0.99.5-3.legacy
Version (9)   : 1.0.4-5.legacy
Summary       : A cross-platform word processor.
Description   :
AbiWord is a cross-platform, open-source word processor. AbiWord
supports basic character formatting (bold, underline, italics),
paragraph alignment, spell checking, importing Word97 and RTF
documents, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo,
multiple column control, widow/orphan control, find and replace, and
inclusion of images.

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Update Information:

A buffer overflow in the wv library included in abiword allows remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code via a document with a long DateTime
field.

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7.3 Changelog:

* Tue Oct 19 2004 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>

- Added libtool BuildPrereq.

* Tue Aug 31 2004 Dave Botsch <dwb7 at ccmr.cornell.edu>

- Added field.c.patch
- added legacy to release


9 Changelog:

* Tue Oct 19 2004 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> 1:1.0.4-5.legacy

- Add BuildPrereq: libtool.

* Tue Oct 05 2004 Marc Deslauriers <marcdeslauriers at videotron.ca> 1:1.0.4-4.lega
cy

- Added a better wv security fix (CAN-2004-0645)

* Wed Sep 01 2004 Marc Deslauriers <marcdeslauriers at videotron.ca> 1:1.0.4-3.lega
cy

- wv security fix (CAN-2004-0645)

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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedoralegacy.org/

1de1739c89ad268ad00407f792d4ae587fc12519  7.3/updates-testing/SRPMS/abiword-0.99.5-3.legacy.src.rpm
7f1f7f8a7fd6c0e4ab2a3820c494763d1f398b78  7.3/updates-testing/i386/abiword-0.99.5-3.legacy.i386.rpm
40ec194cf69f56ee176e6c7bb995a6b34bad5cb2  9/updates-testing/SRPMS/abiword-1.0.4-5.legacy.src.rpm
fadc8f407110a121ced851d20748c7807f2f71a2  9/updates-testing/i386/abiword-1.0.4-5.legacy.i386.rpm

 
Please note that this update is also available via yum and apt through the 
updates-testing channel.  Many people find this an easier way to apply 
updates.
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