-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-13635 2013-07-25 22:56:30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl-Proc-ProcessTable Product : Fedora 18 Version : 0.48 Release : 1.fc18 URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Proc-ProcessTable/ Summary : Perl extension to access the Unix process table Description : Perl interface to the Unix process table. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update, to the current upstream maintenance release, fixes numerous bugs (as mentioned in the package changelog), including unsafe usage of /tmp when caching is enabled (CVE-2011-4363), which could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files due to a race condition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jul 24 2013 Paul Howarth <[email protected]> - 0.48-1 - Update to 0.48 - Make module thread-safe on linux (CPAN RT#38709) - New constructor flag enable_ttys, which when set to 0 disables traversing the device tree - New maintainer JSWARTZ - Fix reading process command lines (CPAN RT#51470) - Fixes for non-threaded perls (CPAN RT#41397, CPAN RT#46861, CPAN RT#58236) - Fix file descriptor leak (CPAN RT#69397) - Fix unsafe use of /tmp (CPAN RT#72862, CVE-2011-4363) - Various fixes for non-linux operating systems - Fix byte order tag in cache file (CPAN RT#72862) - Fixes to stay accurate on machines with many CPUs (CPAN RT#82175), to include system time into calculations (CPAN RT#80391) and others (CPAN RT#81312, CPAN RT#82175 and CPAN RT#80391) - Fix unknown process states for debian kernels (CPAN RT#71976) - Added tests - Drop ARG_MAX patch, no longer needed - Don't use macros for commands - Don't need to remove empty directories from the buildroot - Don't ship empty TODO file - Drop %defattr, redundant since rpm 4.4 - Specify all dependencies - Add %{?perl_default_filter} * Thu Jul 18 2013 Petr Pisar <[email protected]> - 0.44-14 - Perl 5.18 rebuild * Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 0.44-13 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #758866 - CVE-2011-4363 perl-Proc-ProcessTable: unsafe temporary file usage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758866 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Proc-ProcessTable' 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
