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Red Hat Security Advisory: New netscape packages availableOct 05, 1999, 16:41 (0 Talkback[s])Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:44:19 -0400 Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: New netscape packages available 1. Topic: A new version of Netscape has been released. This release fixes some security problems in Javascript and form signing. 2. Bug IDs fixed (http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info): None. 3. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 5.x, Intel Red Hat Linux 6.x, Intel Sparc packages will be available if/when Netscape updates their Sparc releases. 4. Obsoleted by: 5. Conflicts with: 6. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 5.x: Intel: Sparc: Source packages: Red Hat Linux 6.x: Intel: Source packages: 7. Problem description: A new version of Netscape has been released. This release fixes some security problems in Javascript and form signing, as well as adding some new features. For more information, please see: http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.7/relnotes/unix-4.7.html 8. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Uvh where filename is the name of the RPM. 9. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name f604d7e8032fe13f630373e5f9ad0940 i386/netscape-common-4.7-0.i386.rpm 3fcc5fca33ba3fc647fb5a7bf6aabf41 i386/netscape-communicator-4.7-0.i386.rpm 33818607fdc893a047dbf03c4b46ce34 i386/netscape-navigator-4.7-0.i386.rpm c32b3f430a9eaf84c2c3f1e35f402229 SRPMS/netscape-4.7-0.src.rpm f01c5658d5d264bee329aa51f3b09fe5 i386/netscape-common-4.7-1.i386.rpm 59de608731eea3293b12cbe370551403 i386/netscape-communicator-4.7-1.i386.rpm 3303e827932687615c0537e116660b21 i386/netscape-navigator-4.7-1.i386.rpm aafb6d8c787771c3e2cff67bb0fff608 SRPMS/netscape-4.7-1.src.rpm These packages are signed with GnuPG by Red Hat Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html and is also attached to this annoucement. You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys. 10. References RPM-GPG-KEY |