Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-12973 (trousers)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: trousers-0.3.9-1.fc17 
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Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:26:47 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-12973
2012-08-30 00:24:17
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Name        : trousers
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.3.9
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://trousers.sourceforge.net
Summary     : TCG's Software Stack v1.2
Description :
TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack
(TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use
of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys
securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's software
state using cryptographic hashes and more.

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Update Information:

This update closes a small security issue where a remote user could crash tscd if it were enabled
for networking. This update also has improved init scripts which should make it load quicker.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 27 2012 Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> 0.3.9-1
- New upstream bug fix release
- Update init scripts to not try to load modules
- bz #781666 - CVE-2012-0698 DoS vulnerability in tcsd
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #781666 - CVE-2012-0698 DoS vulnerability in tcsd [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781666
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update trousers' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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