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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-9679
2010-06-08 18:41:20
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Name : emesene
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 1.6.2
Release : 1.fc12
URL :
http://emesene.org
Summary : Instant messaging client for Windows Live Messenger network
Description :
Emesene is a MSN Messenger client writed in Python and
GTK. The main idea is to make a client similar to the official MSN
Messenger client but kepping it simple and with a nice GUI.
Emesene is a python/gtk MSN messenger clone, it uses msnlib (MSNP9)
and try to be a nice looking and simple MSN client.
You can login, send formated messages, smilies, use autoreply, change
status, change nick, send nudges and all the stuff you can do in a
normal MSN client except, file transfers,custom emoticons and display
picture.
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Update Information:
emesenelib/ProfileManager.py in emesene before 1.6.2 allows local users to
overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the emsnpic temporary file.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Jun 8 2010 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.2-1
- Update to 1.6.2. Resolves rhbz#601402 CVE-2010-2053
- Update spec to match current guidelines
* Fri Jan 15 2010 Allisson Azevedo <allisson@gmail.com> - 1.6-1
- Update to 1.6.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #601401 - CVE-2010-2053 emesene: symlink vulnerability allows overwriting arbitrary files
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601401
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update emesene' 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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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