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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-5919
2013-05-23 19:05:22
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Name : livecd-tools
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 13.4.4
Release : 2.el6
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.
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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.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #966596 - CVE-2013-2069 livecd-tools: improper handling of passwords
[epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966596
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. 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 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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