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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-2328 (logwatch)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: logwatch-7.3.6-60.fc14
Date:  Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:49:05 +0000
Message-ID:  <20110310204905.D5DF9110691@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-2328 2011-03-01 03:42:39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : logwatch Product : Fedora 14 Version : 7.3.6 Release : 60.fc14 URL : http://www.logwatch.org/ Summary : A log file analysis program Description : Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out of the package on many systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes CVE-2011-1018: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Feb 28 2011 Karel Klic <kklic@redhat.com> - 7.3.6-60 - Added fix for CVE-2011-1018: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names (rhbz#680237) * Tue Jan 18 2011 Karel Klic <kklic@redhat.com> 7.3.6-59 - Added -dovecot4 patch (#666376) - Added -smartd2 patch (#666382) - Added -dhcpd3 patch (#666393) - Added -xntpd2 patch (#666498) - Added -pam_unix5.patch (#666586) - Added -automount.patch (#666582) * Sat Oct 9 2010 Richard Fearn <richardfearn@gmail.com> 7.3.6-58 - named: match "DNS format error", and variants of existing messages (rhbz#595222) * Sat Oct 9 2010 Richard Fearn <richardfearn@gmail.com> 7.3.6-57 - named: match "clients-per-query increased" as well as "decreased" * Sat Oct 9 2010 Richard Fearn <richardfearn@gmail.com> 7.3.6-56 - Update dhcpd patch so that "Information-request" messages are matched (rhbz#624590) * Thu Aug 19 2010 Karel Klic <kklic@redhat.com> 7.3.6-55 - Removed BuildRoot tag and %clean section - Deleted trailing whitespaces in the spec file - Updated patch upstream status - Added fetchmail service (rhbz#528838) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #680237 - CVE-2011-1018 logwatch: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680237 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update logwatch' 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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