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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-2413 (python-paste-script)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: python-paste-script-1.7.5-4.fc15
Date:  Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:24:40 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120406212440.7BEA521330@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-2413 2012-02-25 07:55:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : python-paste-script Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.7.5 Release : 4.fc15 URL : http://pythonpaste.org/script Summary : A pluggable command-line frontend Description : Paster is pluggable command-line frontend, including commands to setup package file layouts Built-in features: * Creating file layouts for packages. For instance a setuptools-ready file layout. * Serving up web applications, with configuration based on paste.deploy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes a security flaw with Paster that prevents it from properly dropping privileges when run as root. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Feb 27 2012 Luke Macken <lmacken@redhat.com> - 1.7.5-4 - Remove the conflicting tests module (#797813) * Thu Feb 23 2012 Luke Macken <lmacken@redhat.com> - 1.7.5-3 - Apply a patch from upstream to fix a security issue when running Paster as root (#796790) * Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.5-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Nov 8 2011 Luke Macken <lmacken@redhat.com> - 1.7.5-1 - Update to 1.7.5 * Fri Oct 28 2011 Luke Macken <lmacken@redhat.com> - 1.7.4.2-1 - Update to 1.7.4.2 - Update the unbundle patch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #796790 - CVE-2012-0878 python-paste-script: Supplementary groups not dropped when started an application with "paster serve" as root https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796790 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python-paste-script' 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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