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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-6740
2012-08-16 17:14:17
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Name : pcp
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 3.6.5
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp
Summary : System-level performance monitoring and performance management
Description :
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) provides a framework and services to support
system-level performance monitoring and performance management.
The PCP open source release provides a unifying abstraction for all of
the interesting performance data in a system, and allows client
applications to easily retrieve and process any subset of that data.
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Update Information:
Security and bugfix update. Security flaws fixed include CVE-2012-3418 CVE-2012-3419
CVE-2012-3420 and CVE-2012-3421
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #841698 - CVE-2012-3418 pcp: multiple integer and heap-based buffer overflow
flaws
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841698
[ 2 ] Bug #841702 - CVE-2012-3419 pcp: privileged information diclosure flaw
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841702
[ 3 ] Bug #841704 - CVE-2012-3420 pcp: two memory leaks can lead to pcmd crash or
trigger OOM killer
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841704
[ 4 ] Bug #841706 - CVE-2012-3421 pcp: event-driven programming flaw blocks pmcd from
responding to other legitimate requests
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update pcp' 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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