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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-9831 (cifs-utils)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: cifs-utils-5.0-2.fc15
Date:  Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:35:06 +0000
Message-ID:  <20110809013506.46D55110B99@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-9831 2011-07-31 02:57:46 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : cifs-utils Product : Fedora 15 Version : 5.0 Release : 2.fc15 URL : http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs-utils/ Summary : Utilities for mounting and managing CIFS mounts Description : The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for mounting shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this package work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to mount a SMB/CIFS share onto a client and use it as if it were a standard Linux file system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is an update that fixes a problem with handling embedded newlines in share names or mountpoints. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jul 29 2011 Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> 5.0-2 - mount.cifs: fix check_newline retcode check (bz# 726717) * Wed Jun 1 2011 Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> 5.0-1 - update to 5.0 * Mon May 16 2011 Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> 4.9-2 - mount.cifs: pass unadulterated device string to kernel (bz# 702664) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #726691 - CVE-2011-2724 samba, cifs-utils: mount.cifs incorrect fix for CVE-2010-0547 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726691 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cifs-utils' 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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