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Mandriva Linux Advisory MDVA-2009:249
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : mdkonline
Date : December 10, 2009
Affected: 2009.0
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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 warn about
it and offer to upgrade to a newer release
- makes the new config tool backported from 2010.0 to work on 2009.0
too (due to older drakxtools API)
- update the authentication scheme for MES5

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.
It has now more efficient system power usage.
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 2009.0:
1a214db2749b3598dc7f77cbd074b768 2009.0/i586/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2009.0.noarch.rpm
5879071c435e2b700637967ad1320450 2009.0/SRPMS/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2009.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.0/X86_64:
52c5666c2c8a728633843993b20ddfd2 2009.0/x86_64/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2009.0.noarch.rpm
5879071c435e2b700637967ad1320450 2009.0/SRPMS/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2009.0.src.rpm
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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
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team

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