[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: bip-0.8.8-1.el6

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0244 2012-01-25 18:27:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : bip Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 0.8.8 Release : 1.el6 URL : http://bip.t1r.net Summary : IRC Bouncer Description : Bip is an IRC proxy, which means it keeps connected to your preferred IRC servers, can store the logs for you, and even send them back to your IRC client(s) upon connection. You may want to use bip to keep your logfiles (in a unique format and on a unique computer) whatever your client is, when you connect from multiple workstations, or when you simply want to have a playback of what was said while you were away. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Add upstream patch to fix buffer overflow with too many open fd's -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #784299 - CVE-2012-0806 bip: Stack-based buffer overflow when processing connection events https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784299 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update bip' 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------