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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-13551
2009-12-22 19:38:34
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Name : slim
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 1.3.1
Release : 9.fc11
URL :
http://slim.berlios.de/
Summary : Simple Login Manager
Description :
SLiM (Simple Login Manager) is a graphical login manager for X11.
It aims to be simple, fast and independent from the various
desktop environments.
SLiM is based on latest stable release of Login.app by Per Lidén.
In the distribution, slim may be called through a wrapper, slim-dynwm,
which determines the available window managers using the freedesktop
information and modifies the slim configuration file accordingly,
before launching slim.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Dec 22 2009 Lorenzo Villani <lvillani(a)binaryhelix.net> - 1.3.1-9
- Fix CVE-2009-1756 (bugzilla: 544024)
- Fix MIT insecure cookie generation (patch from Debian)
- Fix build with GCC 4.4
* Sat Oct 10 2009 Lorenzo Villani <lvillani(a)binaryhelix.net> - 1.3.1-8
- Fix BZ #518068
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> -
1.3.1-7
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Jun 21 2009 Anders F Bjorklund <afb(a)users.sourceforge.net> 1.3.1-6
- exclude current directory from default_path in slim.conf (#505359)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #501562 - CVE-2009-1756 SLiM: Potential X session hijacking (MITM)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501562
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update slim' 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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