-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-6456 2012-04-24 03:08:58 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : systemd Product : Fedora 17 Version : 44 Release : 6.fc17 URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd Summary : A System and Service Manager Description : systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes: * a bug that could be exploited to delete arbitrary directories. * F17 blocker bug 805942. Forward-compatible short command names `loginctl`, `journalctl` were added. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #803358 - CVE-2012-1174 systemd (systemd-logind): TOCTOU race condition by removing user session https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803358 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update systemd' 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
