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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-17477 (openvswitch)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: openvswitch-1.4.2-5.fc17
Date:  Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:55:16 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121113005516.86E0C208C1@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-17477 2012-11-02 02:59:37 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : openvswitch Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.4.2 Release : 5.fc17 URL : http://openvswitch.org Summary : Open vSwitch daemon/database/utilities Description : Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Don't create world writable pki/*/incoming directory Don't add iptables accept rule for -p GRE as GRE tunneling is unsupported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Nov 1 2012 Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-5 - Don't create world writable pki/*/incoming directory (#845351) * Thu Oct 25 2012 Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-4 - Don't add iptables accept rule for -p GRE as GRE tunneling is unsupported * Wed Oct 10 2012 Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-3 - make ovs-vsctl timeout if daemon is not running (#858722) * Mon Sep 10 2012 Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-2 - add controller package containing ovs-controller * Fri Aug 17 2012 Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-1 - Update to 1.4.2 - Fixed openvswitch-rhel-initscripts-resync.patch so it fits on new sources. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #845351 - CVE-2012-3449 openvswitch: creates world writable directories: /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/*ca/incoming/ [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845351 [ 2 ] Bug #870034 - openvswitch: iptables rule to let through GRE traffic is added even though GRE is unsupported https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870034 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update openvswitch' 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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