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Fedora alert FEDORA-2010-11152 (mipv6-daemon)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: mipv6-daemon-0.4-5.fc13
Date:  Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:33:34 +0000
Message-ID:  <20100817053334.AECAF110ACC@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-11152 2010-07-15 20:44:13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : mipv6-daemon Product : Fedora 13 Version : 0.4 Release : 5.fc13 URL : http://www.linux-ipv6.org/memo/mipv6/ Summary : Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) Daemon Description : The mobile IPv6 daemon allows nodes to remain reachable while moving around in the IPv6 Internet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes two security problems in mipv6-daemon: I) CVE-2010-2522: The origin of netlink messages sent to mipv6-daemon was not verified, allowing for local users to spoof netlink messages and thus influence the behaviour of mipv6-daemon. II) CVE-2010-2523: A specially crafted ND_OPT_PREFIX_INFORMATION or ND_OPT_HOME_AGENT_INFO packet could be used to exploit a buffer overflow in mipv6-daemon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #614227 - CVE-2010-2522 mipv6-daemon: local users can spoof netlink socket communications https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614227 [ 2 ] Bug #614237 - CVE-2010-2523 mipv6-daemon: multiple buffer overflows allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614237 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mipv6-daemon' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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