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Mandriva Linux Advisory MDVA-2009:249-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : mdkonline
Date : December 14, 2009
Affected: Enterprise Server 5.0
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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.

Update:

Packages for MES5 was not provided earlier, this update addresses
the problem.
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
940468471453304619b4c419fbd69c1c mes5/i586/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdvmes5.noarch.rpm
5bef7a54ceb1391e8b054fb8c2bca403 mes5/SRPMS/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdvmes5.src.rpm

Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
76c2b733f6b5fa87bb16826f45da9b7b mes5/x86_64/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdvmes5.noarch.rpm
5bef7a54ceb1391e8b054fb8c2bca403 mes5/SRPMS/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdvmes5.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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