Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-9652 (system-config-firewall)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: system-config-firewall-1.2.29-4.fc15 
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Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:09:53 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9652
2011-07-23 01:34:32
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Name        : system-config-firewall
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.2.29
Release     : 4.fc15
URL         : http://fedorahosted.org/system-config-firewall
Summary     : A graphical interface for basic firewall setup
Description :
system-config-firewall is a graphical user interface for basic firewall setup.

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Update Information:

- fixed possible privilege escalation flaw via use of python pickle
  (CVE-2011-2520), replaced pickle by json (rhbz#717985) and (rhbz#722991)
- stop D-BUS firewall mechanism on update, because D-BUS interface will not
  be compatible to old pickle version
- system-config-printer needs to get updated, too
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jul 22 2011 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 1.2.29-4
- fixed possible privilege escalation flaw via use of python pickle
  (CVE-2011-2520), replaced pickle by json (rhbz#717985) and (rhbz#722991)
- stop D-BUS firewall mechanism on update
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #717985 - CVE-2011-2520 system-config-firewall: privilege escalation flaw via use of
python pickle
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717985
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update system-config-firewall' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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