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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2018-c25e48ded1
2018-12-07 00:43:04.904854
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Name : bird
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 1.6.4
Release : 2.el7
URL :
http://bird.network.cz
Summary : BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
Description :
BIRD is dynamic routing daemon supporting IPv4 and IPv6 versions of routing
protocols BGP, RIP and OSPF.
This package contains IPv4 version.
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Update Information:
Update of bird to version 1.6.4 which includes fix for CVE-2018-12066. bird now
runs under bird user and group rather than root Running bird in foreground
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1285672 - Bird should start in foreground in the systemd unit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285672
[ 2 ] Bug #1642737 - bird-1.6.4 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1642737
[ 3 ] Bug #1397574 - Bird should drop privileges
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397574
[ 4 ] Bug #1588770 - CVE-2018-12066 bird: Stack overflow in BGP mask expressions
[epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588770
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update bird' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
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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