Fedora Core 5 Update: ncompress-4.2.4-44.fc5

[Peter Vrabec]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-922
2006-08-21
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : ncompress
Version     : 4.2.4
Release     : 44.fc5
Summary     : Fast compression and decompression utilities.
Description :
The ncompress package contains the compress and uncompress file
compression and decompression utilities, which are compatible with the
original UNIX compress utility (.Z file extensions).  These utilities
can't handle gzipped (.gz file extensions) files, but gzip can handle
compressed files.

Install ncompress if you need compression/decompression utilities
which are compatible with the original UNIX compress utility.

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* Mon Aug 21 2006 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec at redhat.com> 4.2.4-44
- fix bss buffer underflow CVE-2006-1168 (#201919)

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

358f59e5b0f9612707ffdcdbd8b5dac2b8fcaed4  SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-44.fc5.src.rpm
358f59e5b0f9612707ffdcdbd8b5dac2b8fcaed4  noarch/ncompress-4.2.4-44.fc5.src.rpm
eb4511c025585abee4827d3abc8590a6d8fa6482  ppc/ncompress-4.2.4-44.fc5.ppc.rpm
061594da0bae8ce75288e5b5f49a23984818945a  ppc/debug/ncompress-debuginfo-4.2.4-44.fc5.ppc.rpm
168e919ca52243874805515444ca31dda5171314  x86_64/ncompress-4.2.4-44.fc5.x86_64.rpm
855e17fb1d85508b3aa2ee69b545f7246b341450  x86_64/debug/ncompress-debuginfo-4.2.4-44.fc5.x86_64.rpm
372603ace266fc59bf5c2bc3ea8958a61f040165  i386/debug/ncompress-debuginfo-4.2.4-44.fc5.i386.rpm
cfc072723a037fdfd610c816b31cbfece61a94f8  i386/ncompress-4.2.4-44.fc5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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