-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-9652 2011-07-23 01:34:32 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : system-config-firewall Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.2.29 Release : 4.fc15 URL : http://fedorahosted.org/system-config-firewall Summary : A graphical interface for basic firewall setup Description : system-config-firewall is a graphical user interface for basic firewall setup. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - fixed possible privilege escalation flaw via use of python pickle (CVE-2011-2520), replaced pickle by json (rhbz#717985) and (rhbz#722991) - stop D-BUS firewall mechanism on update, because D-BUS interface will not be compatible to old pickle version - system-config-printer needs to get updated, too -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jul 22 2011 Thomas Woerner <[email protected]> 1.2.29-4 - fixed possible privilege escalation flaw via use of python pickle (CVE-2011-2520), replaced pickle by json (rhbz#717985) and (rhbz#722991) - stop D-BUS firewall mechanism on update -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #717985 - CVE-2011-2520 system-config-firewall: privilege escalation flaw via use of python pickle https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717985 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update system-config-firewall' 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
