Mageia alert MGASA-2012-0188 (keepalived)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2012-0188: keepalived-1.2.2-0.4.mga1
 (1/core), keepalived-1.2.2-1.2.mga2 (2/core) 
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Thu, 2 Aug 2012 20:21:20 +0200
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MGASA-2012-0188
Date: 	August 2nd, 2012
Affected releases: 	1, 2


Description:
Updated keepalived package fixes security vulnerability:

The pidfile_write function in core/pidfile.c in keepalived 1.2.2 and
earlier uses 0666 permissions for the (1) keepalived.pid,
(2) checkers.pid, and (3) vrrp.pid files in /var/run/, which allows
local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to one of
these files (CVE-2011-1784).

A security issue due to syslog being used inside of sighandlers has
also been fixed.

Finally, keepalived was failing to load the ip_vs kernel module
because of an incorrect modprobe option. This has also been corrected.


Updated Packages:
Mageia 1:
keepalived-1.2.2-0.4.mga1

Mageia 2:
keepalived-1.2.2-1.2.mga2


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1784
http://www.keepalived.org/changelog.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619415
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626281
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4084
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-...