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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-10755 (am-utils)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: am-utils-6.1.5-8.1.fc9
Date:  Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:33:56 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090107093356.CBA9A188029@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-10755 2008-12-07 02:14:26 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : am-utils Product : Fedora 9 Version : 6.1.5 Release : 8.1.fc9 URL : http://am-utils.org Summary : Automount utilities including an updated version of Amd. Description : Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS, CD-ROMS and local drives. You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Dec 2 2008 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> 5:6.1.5-8.1 - fix #450754 - Amd does not work with 2.6.25 (thanks to Philippe Troin) - fix #435420 - CVE-2008-1078 am-utils: insecure usage of temporary files - fix autotools stuff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #435420 - CVE-2008-1078 am-utils: insecure usage of temporary files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435420 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update am-utils' 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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