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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-7314 (systemtap)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: systemtap-1.4-9.fc15
Date:  Thu, 26 May 2011 21:53:51 +0000
Message-ID:  <20110526215351.665661112EE@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-7314 2011-05-20 20:33:50 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : systemtap Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.4 Release : 9.fc15 URL : http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ Summary : Instrumentation System Description : SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6. Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation of the system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Two divide-by-zero flaws were found in the way systemtap interpreted certain corrupted DWARF expressions. A privileged user able to execute arbitrary systemtap scripts could be tricked into triggering this flaw to crash the target machine. An unprivileged user (in the stapusr group) may be able to trigger this flaw to crash the target machine, only if unprivileged mode was enabled by the system administrator. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed May 18 2011 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> - 1.4-9 - Disable documentation builds temporarily, due to bug #704298. * Wed May 18 2011 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> - 1.4-7 - CVE-2011-1781, CVE-2011-1769 * Wed May 4 2011 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 1.4-6 - no crash on arm * Sun Feb 13 2011 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 1.4-5 - no crash on sparc * Wed Feb 9 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #703972 - CVE-2011-1781 systemtap: divide by zero stack unwinding flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703972 [ 2 ] Bug #702687 - CVE-2011-1769 systemtap: does not guard against DWARF operations div-by-zero errors, which can cause a kernel panic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702687 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update systemtap' 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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