Fedora Core 4 Update: sysreport-1.4.1-5
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- Fedora Update Notification
- FEDORA-2005-1071
- 2005-11-10
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- Product : Fedora Core 4
- Name : sysreport
- Version : 1.4.1
- Release : 5
- Summary : Gathers system hardware and configuration information.
- Description :
- Sysreport is a utility that gathers information about a system's
- hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for
- diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sysreport is commonly used to help
- support technicians and developers by providing a "snapshot" of a
- system's current layout.
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- Update Information:
- It is possible for a local attacker to cause a race
- condition and trick sysreport into writing its output to a
- directory the attacker can read.
- The new sysreport fixes this security issue
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- Tue Jul 12 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1.4.1-5
- - security fix #162978, CAN-2005-2104
- Fri Jun 17 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1.4.1-4
- - fix datestamp
- Tue Jun 14 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1.4.1-3
- - don't include sensitive data #159502
- - exim/nis/cluster/inittab/maillog/shell/ipcs/nscd/udev
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- This update can be downloaded from:
- http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/
- 12a5bea3478280e753817be123909ef1 SRPMS/sysreport-1.4.1-5.src.rpm
- 817347be8397066f39154f558348c626 x86_64/sysreport-1.4.1-5.noarch.rpm
- 817347be8397066f39154f558348c626 i386/sysreport-1.4.1-5.noarch.rpm
- This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
- launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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