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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2017-71f816e116
2017-12-18 18:52:57.298346
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Name : collectd
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 5.8.0
Release : 1.el7
URL :
https://collectd.org/
Summary : Statistics collection daemon for filling RRD files
Description :
collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically
and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways,
for example in RRD files.
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Update Information:
Upstream released new version. See
https://collectd.org/news.shtml#news106 for
the list of changes. Fixes CVE-2017-16820 (double free in snmp plugin)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1516450 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function
in snmp.c [epel-7]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516450
[ 2 ] Bug #1516449 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function
in snmp.c [epel-6]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516449
[ 3 ] Bug #1516451 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function
in snmp.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516451
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update collectd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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