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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-17119 (systemd)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: systemd-204-15.fc19
Date:  Sat, 21 Sep 2013 08:38:23 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130921083823.E83F62092D@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-17119 2013-09-19 00:56:55 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : systemd Product : Fedora 19 Version : 204 Release : 15.fc19 URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd Summary : A System and Service Manager Description : systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes polkit authentication issue. Updates the hardware database (including keyboard mappings) to the latest version from upstream. Backport a bunch of fixes from upstream. Only a few correspond to bug reports, and others correct display issues, memory access, and correctness of operation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Sep 18 2013 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> 204-15 - Fix policykit authentication (#1006680). * Tue Sep 17 2013 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> 204-14 - Backport the hardware database (#989103). - Backport two small patches. * Fri Sep 6 2013 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> 204-13 - Backport a bunch of fixes (#995575 and others). * Fri Sep 6 2013 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> 204-12 - Add ownership of a few directories that we create (#894202). * Thu Sep 5 2013 Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> 204-11 - bump release - always call kmod, even when a driver is bound to the device Resolves: rhbz#1004456 * Fri Aug 16 2013 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 204-11 - Filter out provides for private python modules. * Sun Aug 11 2013 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 204-10 - New systemd-python3 package (#976427). * Mon Jun 24 2013 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> 204-9 - Rename nm_dispatcher to NetworkManager-dispatcher in default preset (#977433) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1006680 - CVE-2013-4327 systemd: insecure calling of polkit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006680 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update systemd' 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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