-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-9111 2013-05-25 11:19:10 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : livecd-tools Product : Fedora 17 Version : 17.17 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/livecd Summary : Tools for building live CDs Description : Tools for generating live CDs on Fedora based systems including derived distributions such as RHEL, CentOS and others. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD for more details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: The livecd-tools package provides support for reading and executing Kickstart files in order to create a system image. It was discovered that livecd-tools gave the root user an empty password rather than leaving the password locked in situations where no 'rootpw' directive was used or when the 'rootpw --lock' directive was used within the Kickstart file, which could allow local users to gain access to the root account. (CVE-2013-2069) Please note that livecd-tools is also used by appliance-tools to create images used for virtual machines, USB based systems, and so on. Additionally, the Python script components of livecd-tools have been broken out into a separate package named python-imgcreate on some distributions (such as Fedora). Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Amazon Web Services for reporting this issue. Amazon Web Services acknowledges Sylvain Beucler as the original reporter. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu May 23 2013 Brian C. Lane <[email protected]> 17.17-1 - Version 17.17 (bcl) - Avoid setting empty root password (#964299) (thoger) CVE-2013-2069 * Wed Apr 3 2013 Brian C. Lane <[email protected]> 17.16-1 - Version 17.16 (bcl) - Use parted to check for GPT disklabel (#947653) (bcl) - Output details of dep check failure (bcl) - Properly generate kernel stanzas (#928093) (bcl) - correctly check for selinux state (#896610) (bcl) * Thu Sep 6 2012 Brian C. Lane <[email protected]> 17.15-1 - Version 17.15 (bcl) - use cp -r instead of -a (bcl) - New location for GRUB2 config on UEFI (#851220) (bcl) * Mon Aug 6 2012 Brian C. Lane <[email protected]> 17.14-1 - Version 17.14 (bcl) - dracut needs to load vfat and msdos filesystems (bcl) * Thu Aug 2 2012 Brian C. Lane <[email protected]> 17.12-1 - Version 17.13 (bcl) - Recognize rd.live.image as well as liveimg in sed scripts of livecd-iso-to- disk & edit-livecd (fgrose) - fix /etc/localtime file vs. symlink (#829032) (bcl) * Tue Jul 31 2012 Brian C. Lane <[email protected]> 17.12-1 - Version 17.12 (bcl) - dracut doesn't need explicit filesystems (bcl) - livecd-creator: Add --cacheonly for offline use (martin) - Implement cacheonly (offline) support in ImageCreator and LoopCreator (martin) - if mounting squashfs add ro mount option (jboggs) - imgcreate: Use copy2 for TimezoneConfig (#829032) (bcl) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #964299 - CVE-2013-2069 livecd-tools: improper handling of passwords https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964299 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update livecd-tools' 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
