-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-3419 2008-04-29 20:31:44 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : util-linux-ng Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.13.1 Release : 2.fc8 URL : ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng Summary : A collection of basic system utilities Description : The util-linux-ng package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login program.

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* Tue Apr 22 2008 Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com 2.13.1-2 - fix audit log injection attack via login * Wed Jan 16 2008 Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com 2.13.1-1 - upgrade to stable util-linux-ng 2.13.1 - fix #427874 - util-linux-ng gets "excess command line argument" on update * Thu Jan 3 2008 Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com 2.13-3.2 - fix #427207 - util-linux-ng-2.13-3.1.fc8.src.rpm not rebuilded * Wed Dec 5 2007 Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com 2.13-3.1 - fix #409551 - hwclock: check for ENODEV (upstream patch) - fix #408391 - setarch: add missing alpha subarchs (upstream patch) - mkswap: possible to crash with SELinux relabeling support (upstream patch) - mount: don't call canonicalize(SPEC) for cifs, smbfs and nfs (upstream patch) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:

[ 1 ] Bug #443925 - CVE-2008-1926 util-linux: audit log injection via login https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443925 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update util-linux-ng' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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