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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-8364 (rkhunter)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc8
Date:  Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:26:55 +0000
Message-ID:  <20080925002655.4533A208F57@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8364 2008-09-24 12:42:39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : rkhunter Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.3.2 Release : 5.fc8 URL : http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ Summary : A host-based tool to scan for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits Description : Rootkit Hunter (RKH) is an easy-to-use tool which checks computers running UNIX (clones) for the presence of rootkits and other unwanted tools. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Sep 3 2008 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@tummy.com> - 1.3.2-5 - Patch debug tmp file issue - bug #460628 * Mon Jun 16 2008 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@tummy.com> - 1.3.2-4 - Fix cron script to only mail on warn/error - bug #450703 - Fix conditional to account for fc10 rsyslog -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #460628 - rkhunter: Insecure auxiliary /tmp file usage (symlink attack possible) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460628 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update rkhunter' 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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