news 28 Posted December 11, 2009 This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1260492147-24326-1936 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Advisory MDVA-2009:251 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : mdkonline Date : December 10, 2009 Affected: 2008.1 _______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: This update fixes several issues regarding the live upgrade to a more recent distribution, notably: - new distributions are now only presented after all updates were applied. - if current distribution is no more supported, we will about it and offer to upgrade to a newer release It also fix a couple crashes: - a rare crash (bug #55346) - gracefully handle (rare) server issues (bugs #51299 & #51548) Now passwords with special caracters are properly managed. For security, we now access api.mandriva.com through the https protocol. The applet now offer to configure a couple settings. Last but not least, it now more efficient system power usage _______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2008.1: 2f89701bacdefa24c120a1358a6cfa52 2008.1/i586/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2008.1.noarch.rpm e849063fc39f902ec5fbf676e798e388 2008.1/SRPMS/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64: d06b866d85a9f56e7a4ec65c78dc1690 2008.1/x86_64/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2008.1.noarch.rpm e849063fc39f902ec5fbf676e798e388 2008.1/SRPMS/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________ To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_(at)_mandriva.com _______________________________________________________________________ Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLIWm3mqjQ0CJFipgRArVXAJ4hrqajUiffXQwCdLJY8wboNb3tewCgzXqq fi0WkooickNoCczZi+9c2cQ= =ot61 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------=_1260492147-24326-1936 Content-Type: text/plain; name="message-footer.txt" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message-footer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To unsubscribe, send a email to sympa ( -at -) mandrivalinux.org with this subject : unsubscribe security-announce _______________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://www.mandrivastore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com _______________________________________________________ ------------=_1260492147-24326-1936-- Share this post Link to post