Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-17492 (krb5-appl)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: krb5-appl-1.0.1-8.fc15 
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-17492
2011-12-27 22:20:34
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Name        : krb5-appl
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.0.1
Release     : 8.fc15
URL         : http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
Summary     : Kerberos-aware versions of telnet, ftp, rsh, and rlogin
Description :
This package contains Kerberos-aware versions of the telnet, ftp, rcp, rsh,
and rlogin clients and servers.  While these have been replaced by tools
such as OpenSSH in most environments, they remain in use in others.

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Update Information:

This update incorporates the upstream patch to fix a buffer overflow in the Kerberos-aware telnet
server.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec 27 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> - 1.0.1-8
- add upstream patch for telnetd buffer overflow (CVE-2011-4862, #770325)
* Tue Jul  5 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> - 1.0.1-7
- ftpd: add candidate patch to detect setegid/setregid/setresgid and check
  for errors when calling them (MITKRB5-SA-2011-005, CVE-2011-1526, #713341)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #770325 - CVE-2011-4862 krb5: telnet client and server encrypt_keyid heap-based buffer
overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770325
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update krb5-appl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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