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The latest version of centerim package, as shipped with Fedora 12 (centerim-4.22.8-1.fc12) embeds own copies of multiple libraries (libmsn, libyahoo2, libgadu) which are already available as separate Fedora packages. Please consider to switch from using own, embedded library copies to use of system ones, provided by relevant packages. Additional info: .../BUILD/centerim-4.22.8/Makefile.in contains following: 119 DIST_SUBDIRS = connwrap kkstrtext kksystr kkconsui libicq2000 libmsn \ 120 libyahoo2 firetalk libgadu libjabber intl po misc share src From those, libmsn, libyahoo2 and libgadu are already available as separate Fedora packages.
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Description of problem: This package contains an old embedded version of the expat xml parsing library as included by libjabber. Code inspection shows this embedded copy is vulnerable to CVE-2009-3720 and possibly other issues. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version: 4.22.9 Release: 1.fc13 Additional info: The cve https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531697 Ideally, the best solution is to link in the system expat library and not use the embedded copy as has been mentioned in a previous bug report. This would help prevent these types of security issues from reoccuring. I have marked this issue as a security issue due to the fact that a CVE was assigned to expat. I have not investigated how this vulnerability would be triggered.
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.