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Current Version: 72	Published: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:25:51 GMT

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Title: RHSA-2005:807 - Curl Security Update - Red Hat Enterprise 3.0
Severity: Moderate
Fixlet ID: 200580701
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-807.html

Fixlet Description: Updated curl packages that fix a security issue are now available.  All users of curl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that resolve this issue.

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Title: RHSA-2005:812 - Wget Security Update - Red Hat Enterprise 3.0
Severity: Important
Fixlet ID: 200581201
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-812.html

Fixlet Description: Updated wget packages that fix a security issue are now available.  All users of wget are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that resolves this issue.

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Title: RHSA-2005:807 - Curl Security Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: Moderate
Fixlet ID: 200580703
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-807.html

Fixlet Description: Updated curl packages that fix a security issue are now available.  All users of curl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that resolve this issue.

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Title: RHSA-2005:808 - Kernel Security Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: Important
Fixlet ID: 200580801
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-808.html

Fixlet Description: Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and a page attribute mapping bug are now available. Please see the errata page for detailed information about each of these issues. All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.

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Title: RHSA-2005:812 - Wget Security Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: Important
Fixlet ID: 200581203
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-812.html

Fixlet Description: Updated wget packages that fix a security issue are now available.  All users of wget are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that resolves this issue.

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Title: RHBA-2005:688 - Gcc4 Bug Fix and Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200568801
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-688.html

Fixlet Description: Updated packages of GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 4 technology preview that address various issues are now available.These packages update the GCC prerelease snapshot that was included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to GCC 4.0.1 plus bug fixes.For full details regarding all fixed bugs, refer to the package changelog.All users of gcc4 should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolvenumerous bugs.

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Title: RHBA-2005:688 - Dependencies Needed - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: 
Fixlet ID: 200568805
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-688.html

Fixlet Description: Updated packages of GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 4 technology preview that address various issues are now available.  However, this update requires at least version "3.4.4-2" of package "gcc-c++." You must install or upgrade this package in order for this bug fix to become relevant.

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Title: RHBA-2005:692 - Oprofile Bug Fix Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200569201
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-692.html

Fixlet Description: Updated oprofile packages that resolve various bugs are now available.The following issues have been resolved:  - Previously, oprofile was unable to find the symbols in files due to changes in bfd on ppc64.   - Previously, opannotate crashed on the ppc64 architecture.All users of oprofile should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

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Title: RHEA-2005:244 - At Bug Fix Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200524401
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-244.html

Fixlet Description: An updated at package that supports access control via PAM is now available.All users of at should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

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Title: RHEA-2005:244 - Dependencies Needed - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200524405
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-244.html

Fixlet Description: A new package, at, is now available. However, this update requires at least version "0.77-66.8" of package "pam". You must install or upgrade these packages in order for this bug fix to become relevant.

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Title: RHEA-2005:578 - Diskdumputils Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200557801
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-578.html

Fixlet Description: An updated diskdumputils package that adds support for swap partition usage, allows for configurable memory types in partial dumps, and creates multiple PT_LOAD segments on systems with memory holes, is now available.Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package.

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Title: RHEA-2005:596 - Device-Mapper Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200559601
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-596.html

Fixlet Description: Updated device-mapper packages that include various enhancements are now available. Please see the errata page for detailed information about each of these issues. All users of device-mapper should upgrade to these updated packages, which include these enhancements.

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Title: RHEA-2005:600 - Crash Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200560001
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-600.html

Fixlet Description: An updated crash package that adds support for multiple PT_LOAD segments in ELF vmcore files, and fixes an x86_64-specific initialization bug, is now available.Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package.

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Title: RHEA-2005:617 - Evolution-Webcal Enhancement - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200561701
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-617.html

Fixlet Description: An enhanced evolution-webcal package is now available. This update improves the Russian translation of the user-visible text that the package provides for use in applications such as Evolution. All users of evolution-webcal should install this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

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Title: RHEA-2005:649 - Redhat-Lsb Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200564901
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-649.html

Fixlet Description: Updated redhat-lsb packages that include support for LSB 3.0 test suites are now available.Users of LSB test suites v3.0 should upgrade to these updated packages.

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Title: RHEA-2005:656 - Tzdata Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200565601
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-656.html

Fixlet Description: An updated tzdata package that adds daylight savings rule enhancements for various countries is now available.This update adjusts timezone files for USA, Australia, Haiti, Nicaragua, Kazakhstan, Tunisia, and Uruguay.  This update provides corrections for daylight saving rules for Iran, historical rules corrections for Japan, Poland, Northern Ireland and Mali and timezone namechange for East Timor.Users in the specified countries should upgrade to this updated package and rerun system-config-date to update the local timezone in /etc/localtime.  Upgrading this package is optional for users not in the specified countries.

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Title: RHEA-2005:668 - Convmv Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200566801
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-668.html

Fixlet Description:  A new convmv package that converts file name encodings is now available.The convmv package contains a tool for converting the character-set encodings of file names. It is particularly useful for converting file names encoded in legacy charset encodings such as ISO-8859 to UTF-8, or EUC to UTF-8.Users who require the need to convert the encoding of file names should install this newly released package. 

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Title: RHEA-2005:698 - Indexhtml Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200569801
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-698.html

Fixlet Description: An updated indexhtml package that adds a Russian language translation is now available.Those users who wish to run in the Russian locale are advised to upgrade.

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Title: RHEA-2005:710 - Systemtap Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200571001
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-710.html

Fixlet Description: A new system tool, systemtap, is now available.SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6. Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operationof the system.Users are advised to upgrade to this new package.

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Title: RHEA-2005:710 - Dependencies Needed - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200571003
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-710.html

Fixlet Description: A new system tool, systemtap, is now available. However, this update requires at least version "2.6.9-11" of package "kernal", version "3.4.3" of package "libstdc++", and package "tcl." You must install or upgrade these packages in order for this bug fix to become relevant.

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Title: RHEA-2005:725 - AMTU Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200572501
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-725.html

Fixlet Description: A new package, AMTU, is now available.Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU) is an administrative utility that checks whether the underlying protection mechanism of the hardware is being enforced. This is a requirement of the Controlled Access Protection Profile FPT_AMT.1Users are advised to upgrade to this new package.

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Title: RHEA-2005:725 - Dependencies Needed - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200572503
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-725.html

Fixlet Description: A new package, AMTU, is now available.However, this update requires at least version "0.9" of package "audit" and package "audit-libs." You must install or upgrade these packages in order for this bug fix to become relevant.

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Title: RHEA-2005:728 - Redhat-Logos Enhancement - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200572801
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-728.html

Fixlet Description: An enhanced version of redhat-logos that includes Russian language rnotes is now available.Users installing in Russian should upgrade to this package.

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Title: RHEA-2005:796 - Rpmdb-Redhat Enhancement Update - Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Severity: <N/A>
Fixlet ID: 200579601
Fixlet Link: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-796.html

Fixlet Description: A new rpmdb-redhat package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1. This new package reflects changes made for the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2.Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 should upgrade to this updated package.