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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-5375
2011-12-29 21:21:07
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Name : alpine
Product : Fedora EPEL 4
Version : 2.02
Release : 3.el4
URL :
http://re-alpine.sourceforge.net/
Summary : powerful, easy to use console email client
Description :
Alpine -- an Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet
News & Email -- is a tool for reading, sending, and managing
electronic messages. Alpine is the successor to Pine and was
developed by Computing & Communications at the University of
Washington.
Though originally designed for inexperienced email users,
Alpine supports many advanced features, and an ever-growing number of
configuration and personal-preference options.
Changes and enhancements over pine:
* Released under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0.
* Internationalization built around new internal Unicode support.
* Ground-up reorganization of source code around new "pith/" core
routine library.
* Ground-up reorganization of build and install procedure based on
GNU Build System's autotools.
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Update Information:
Update EPEL alpine to 2.02, CVE-2008-5514 libc-client: buffer overflow in
rfc822_output_char / rfc822_output_data [fedora-all]
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #477227 - CVE-2008-5514 libc-client: buffer overflow in rfc822_output_char /
rfc822_output_data
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update alpine' 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 EPEL 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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