-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-16622 2011-11-30 01:33:24 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libselinux Product : Fedora 16 Version : 2.1.6 Release : 5.fc16 URL : http://oss.tresys.com/git/selinux.git Summary : SELinux library and simple utilities Description : Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security. libselinux provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Change python binding for restorecon, to only set the context if the context actually was different. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Nov 29 2011 Dan Walsh <[email protected]> - 2.1.6-5 - Change python binding for restorecon to check if the context matches. - If it does do not reset * Mon Oct 24 2011 Dan Walsh <[email protected]> - 2.1.6-4 - Apply libselinux patch to handle large groups in seusers. * Wed Oct 19 2011 Dan Walsh <[email protected]> - 2.1.6-3 - Add selinux_check_access function. Needed for passwd, chfn, chsh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libselinux' 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
