Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-8274 (socat)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: socat-1.7.2.1-1.fc17 | |
| Date: | Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:04:30 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20120601170431.066CE21EE4@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8274 2012-05-24 15:27:20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : socat Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.7.2.1 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat Summary : Bidirectional data relay between two data channels ('netcat++') Description : Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these. The compat-readline5 library is used to avoid GPLv2 vs GPLv3 issues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix for CVE-2012-0219 heap-based buffer overflow -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed May 23 2012 Paul Wouters <pwouters@redhat.com> - 1.7.2.1-1 - Updated to 1.7.2.1 for CVE-2012-0219, rhbz#821553, rhbz#821688 - Remove patch merged upstream - Remove --disable-fips from configure -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update socat' 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-...