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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-7289 (systemtap)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-7289 2011-05-20 20:32:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : systemtap Product : Fedora 13 Version : 1.4 Release : 6.fc13 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> - 1.4-6 - CVE-2011-1781, CVE-2011-1769 * 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 * Wed Jan 19 2011 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> - 1.4-3 - adapt to kernel CLONE_STOPPED deprecation - adapt to gcc 4.6 unused variable warnings * Wed Jan 19 2011 Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com> - 1.4-2 - sdt fixes * Mon Jan 17 2011 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> - 1.4-1 - Upstream release. * Tue Dec 7 2010 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 1.3-4 - publican now needs a versioned BR (see /usr/bin/publican for details) * Tue Nov 16 2010 David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> - 1.3-3 - CVE-2010-4170 - CVE-2010-4171 * Wed Jul 21 2010 Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> - 1.3-2 - Disable crash on ppc. * Wed Jul 21 2010 Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> - 1.3-1 - Upstream release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-... (Log in to post comments)
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