Fedora alert FEDORA-2010-12252 (iputils)

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    	       [SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: iputils-20071127-12.fc12 
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    	       Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:43:55 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-12252
2010-08-07 22:45:37
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Name        : iputils
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 20071127
Release     : 12.fc12
URL         : http://www.skbuff.net/iputils
Summary     : Network monitoring tools including ping
Description :
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.

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Update Information:

CVE-2010-2529 iputils: denial of service vulnerability in ping
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug  5 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 20071127-12
- fixes #617613 - CVE-2010-2529 iputils: denial of service vulnerability in ping
* Tue May 11 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 20071127-11
- fixes #583976 - ping6 does not support -F flowlabel option
* Thu Mar  4 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 20071127-10
- fixes #557308 - arping ignores the deadline option
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #613819 - CVE-2010-2529 iputils: denial of service vulnerability in ping
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613819
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update iputils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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