-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-18579 2012-11-20 06:53:21 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gnome-system-log Product : Fedora 18 Version : 3.6.1 Release : 2.fc18 URL : http://www.gnome.org Summary : A log file viewer for GNOME Description : gnome-system-log lets you view various log files on your system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update changes gnome-system-log to use a stricter polkit policy when running with elevated privileges. Previously, it would only ask for the user's own password; now it requires anadministrator password. This problem has been reported as CVE-2012-5535 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #878115 - CVE-2012-5535 gnome-system-log: polkit policy too lax, allows reading arbitrary files on the system https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878115 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gnome-system-log' 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
