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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2009.1666
                A vulnerability has been identified in gtk2
                             21 December 2009

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           gtk2
Publisher:         Fedora
Operating System:  Fedora
                   UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
                   Windows
Impact/Access:     Denial of Service -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade

Original Bulletin: 
   https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01071.html

Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on 
         platforms other than Fedora. It is recommended that administrators 
         running gtk2 check for an updated version of the software for their
         operating system.

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-12950
2009-12-10 03:28:34
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Name        : gtk2
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 2.18.5
Release     : 3.fc12
URL         : http://www.gtk.org
Summary     : The GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating GUIs for X
Description :
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application
suites.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a crasher issue in gtk2 involving out of process  windows.
Side effects of the bug are sporadic panel crashes, and  occasional crashes in
gnome-screensaver when typing an invalid  password.    This update also
addresses a crash in Inkscape when using the text tool.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec  8 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> - 2.18.5-1
- - Update to 2.18.5
* Tue Dec  1 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> - 2.18.4-3
- - Fix a mistranslated format string in no_NO (#500067)
* Tue Dec  1 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> - 2.18.4-2
- - Make compose sequences for a-o- consistent (#510741)
* Tue Dec  1 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> - 2.18.4-1
- - Update to 2.18.4
- - See http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/2.18/gtk+-2.18.4.news
* Wed Nov 25 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> - 2.18.3-22
- - Make level3 keys work again (#537567)
* Tue Nov 10 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> - 2.18.3-21
- - Fix refcounting issues in the filechooser that lead
  to crashes with device hotplug (gnome #600992)
* Thu Nov  5 2009 Marek Kasik <mkasik redhat com> - 2.18.3-20
- - Do not rotate page when printing to landscape PDF, just
- - set correct width and height
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #540308 - [abrt] crash detected in gnome-screensaver-2.28.0-6.fc12 
        (BadDrawable)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540308
  [ 2 ] Bug #538156 - [abrt] crash detected in gnome-panel-2.28.0-13.fc12 
        (/usr/libexec/notification-area-applet)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538156
  [ 3 ] Bug #544590 - Using text tool crashes inkscape
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544590
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gtk2' 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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