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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-3074 (inotify-tools)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7
Date:  Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:48:35 -0700
Message-ID:  <200711092348.lA9NmQhm012783@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-3074 2007-11-09 23:48:31.327365 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : inotify-tools Product : Fedora 7 Version : 3.11 Release : 1.fc7 URL : http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/ Summary : Command line utilities for inotify Description : inotify-tools is a set of command-line programs for Linux providing a simple interface to inotify. These programs can be used to monitor and act upon filesystem events. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A vulnerability has been reported in inotify-tools, which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise an application using the library. Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the application using the affected library. NOTE: The programs shipped with inotify-tools are reportedly not affected. The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.11. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Sep 24 2007 Dawid Gajownik <gajownik[AT]gmail.com> - 3.11-1 - Update to 3.11 (CVE-2007-5037, #299771) - Fix License tag -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #299771 - CVE-2007-5037 inotify-tools inotifytools_snprintf() buffer overflow vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299771 [ 2 ] CVE-2007-5037 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 2e2312863c6dacd8cce2957f781bad17c98f30da inotify-tools-devel-3.11-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm f95157e1afc3fc63ade33c43705888d7e4f6b2ff inotify-tools-debuginfo-3.11-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm 8bc30e9362876e9b42b550a9e0244d27b5def322 inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm e3ad0fa64196062ad17937aeef72afc5aae276be inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7.i386.rpm f672a5ab3cda48829a73a9d3448768c765f8ac1e inotify-tools-debuginfo-3.11-1.fc7.i386.rpm 62b8dec724acf521c43963ba3f70e5ef78018929 inotify-tools-devel-3.11-1.fc7.i386.rpm e365b0a88b8c5f81adbfc448665c1294b7912cc3 inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 547d36e971883a1b15f1aa72954abd09fc2bea1d inotify-tools-debuginfo-3.11-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 39dc900b1924af6ef90e7ca0f033adb1fe0cb5c8 inotify-tools-devel-3.11-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm fc59c2a1756120614d3ea6a765153df4fe68c641 inotify-tools-debuginfo-3.11-1.fc7.ppc.rpm bc580b1c329c13dc157ca06e8c38d69efb7d2d4a inotify-tools-devel-3.11-1.fc7.ppc.rpm 340a5eab4e13a493cf00ba81ab5f3bfb637547b3 inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7.ppc.rpm 85953da330a6b93607112ba57f98f985bf2de880 inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update inotify-tools' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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