[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: newsx-1.6-8.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-6319
2008-07-15 04:34:50
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Name        : newsx
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.6
Release     : 8.fc8
URL         : []
Summary     : NNTP news exchange utility
Description :
Newsx is an NNTP client that will connect to a remote NNTP server and
post outgoing news articles batched by the news system (e.g. INN), as
well as fetch incoming articles.

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ChangeLog:

* Sat Jul 12 2008 Dominik Mierzejewski <rpm at greysector.net> 1.6-8
- fixed stack buffer overflow in getarticle.c (#454483)
- URL no longer exists
- restored the use of history
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #454483 - [SECURITY] Stack overflow with lines with leading '.'
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454483
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update newsx' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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