-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-16711 2010-10-27 21:16:43 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : mingetty Product : Fedora 13 Version : 1.08 Release : 5.fc13 URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingetty/ Summary : A compact getty program for virtual consoles only Description : The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for use only on virtual consoles. Mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (you should use the mgetty program in that case). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: In addition, deprecated syslog facility has been updated to modern LOG_AUTHPRIV constant -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Oct 26 2010 Petr Pisar <[email protected]> - 1.08-5 - Check chroot(), chdir(), and nice() (bug #635412) - Open syslog with AUTPRIV facility - Limit TTY name length to prevent buffer overflow (bug #551754) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #551754 - Buffer overflow in open_tty() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551754 [ 2 ] Bug #635412 - unsafe chroot() calls in mingetty https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635412 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mingetty' 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 [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
