-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-0713 2012-01-19 21:21:19 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : xinetd Product : Fedora 16 Version : 2.3.14 Release : 40.fc16 URL : http://www.xinetd.org Summary : A secure replacement for inetd Description : Xinetd is a secure replacement for inetd, the Internet services daemon. Xinetd provides access control for all services based on the address of the remote host and/or on time of access and can prevent denial-of-access attacks. Xinetd provides extensive logging, has no limit on the number of server arguments, and lets you bind specific services to specific IP addresses on your host machine. Each service has its own specific configuration file for Xinetd; the files are located in the /etc/xinetd.d directory.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Fixes leaking file descriptors and problems with memory corruption when loading large number of services. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Jan 18 2012 Jan Synáček jsynacek@redhat.com - 2:2.3.14-40 - Remove realloc inside svc_activate that was causing memory corruption - Number of alloc'd file descriptors is now determined by system limits (ulimit -n) - Add patch -realloc-remove * Tue Jan 17 2012 Jan Synáček jsynacek@redhat.com - 2:2.3.14-39 - Fix memory corruption when loading a large number of services - Resolves #720390 * Mon Jan 16 2012 Jan Synáček jsynacek@redhat.com - 2:2.3.14-38 - Fix leaking file descriptors - Resolves: #702670 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #702670 - xinetd leaking file descriptors https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702670 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xinetd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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