| ||||||||||||||||
Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-7976 (libHX)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-7976 2008-09-11 11:07:05 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libHX Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.23 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://jengelh.hopto.org/files/libHX/ Summary : General-purpose library for typical low-level operations Description : A library for: - rbtree with key-value pair extension - deques (double-ended queues) (Stacks (LIFO) / Queues (FIFOs)) - platform independent opendir-style directory access - platform independent dlopen-style shared library access - auto-storage strings with direct access - command line option (argv) parser - shconfig-style config file parser - platform independent random number generator with transparent /dev/urandom support - various string, memory and zvec ops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A security flaw in the pam_mount's handling of user defined volumes using the 'luserconf' option has been fixed in this update. The vulnerability allowed users to arbitrarily mount filesystems at arbitrary locations. More details about this vulnerability can be found in the announcement message sent to the pam-mount-user mailinglist at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/me ssage.php?msg_name=alpine.LNX.1.10.0809042353120.17569%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou. qr Upstream changelog (excluding the git shortlog) for versions 0.43-0.47: - mount.crypt: fix option slurping (SF bug #2054323) - properly handle simple sgrp config items (Debian bug #493497) - src: correct error check in run_lsof() - conf: check that slash follows home tilde - conf: wildcard inadvertently matched root sometimes - fix double-freeing the authentication token - use ofl instead of lsof/fuser - kill-on-logout support (terminate processes that would stand in the way of unmounting) - mount.crypt: auto-detect necessity for running losetup - mount.crypt: add missing null command to conform to sh syntax (SF bug #2089446) - conf: fix printing of strings when luser volume options were not ok - conf: re-add luserconf security checks - add support for encfs 1.3.x (1.4.x already has been in for long) - conf: add the "noroot" attribute for <volume> to force mounting with the unprivileged user account (required for FUSE filesystems) - replace fixed-size buffers and arrays with dynamic ones (complete) Note: This update also introduces a new version of libHX, which is required by updated pam_mount. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Sep 5 2008 Till Maas <opensource@till.name> - 1.23-1 - Update to latest version * Wed Jun 11 2008 Till Maas <opensource till name> - 1.18-2 - Set variable V for make: displays full compiler commandline * Wed Jun 11 2008 Till Maas <opensource till name> - 1.18-1 - Update to latest version * Tue May 27 2008 Till Maas <opensource till name> - 1.17-1 - Update to latest version * Mon May 5 2008 Till Maas <opensource till name> - 1.15-1 - Update to latest version - Update description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #461464 - pam_mount: missing luserconf security checks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461464 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libHX' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
|
||||||||||||||||