Re: ATTN: AbiWord v2.2.10 Released

From: Beartooth <beartooth_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 21:56:15 CEST

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:59:31 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote:

>
> AbiWord v2.2.10 Released
>
> This release fixes a security issue in the RTF importer that was
> reported to us. All users are advised to upgrade.
>
> The changes from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10 include, amongst others:
>
> * Fix security bug: AbiWord RTF import stack-based buffer overflow /
> CESA-2005-004 - rev 1
> * Fix a list corruption in the MS Word importer
> * Fix the text highlighting color in TOC and field elements (Windows)
>
> The full Changelog can be found at
> http://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.2.10.phtml
>
> Again, we strongly advise all users to upgrade to this latest release.
>
> Availability
> Main site: http://www.abisource.com/download/

That page offers something new to me, called an "autopackage" -- which
seems to be independent of distro, if I read the instructions aright, and
to have a GUI (both of which I like) -- but also to say that I have to
uninstall the old one.

I'm reluctant to do that even on my machine, where I rarely use any word
processor (though AbiWord is it when I do); I'm more than reluctant to do
so on my user's machine, where there's half a novel to lose.

Can I no longer just download an rpm and do rpm -Uvh?? (I'm running Fedora
Core 4)

-- 
Beartooth Sciurivore
Venato ergo sum.
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