-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-3f2d5790d2 2017-05-30 15:08:36.562803 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : menu-cache Product : Fedora 24 Version : 1.0.2 Release : 4.D20170514git56f6668459.fc24 URL : http://lxde.org Summary : Caching mechanism for freedesktop.org compliant menus Description : Menu-cache is a caching mechanism for freedesktop.org compliant menus to speed up parsing of the menu entries. It is currently used by some of components of the LXDE desktop environment such as LXPanel or LXLauncher.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
A potential security flaw is found on LXDE products, which create socket under /tmp with some predictable names, which may leads to DOS. The security flow on lxterminal is now assigned as CVE-2016-10369. Some other components also had similar issues. These new rpms should fix these issues. At least relogin is required to make this fix effect. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1449114 - CVE-2016-10369 lxterminal: Insecure use of /tmp for a socket file [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449114 [ 2 ] Bug #1451070 - CVE-2017-8933 menu-cache: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451070 [ 3 ] Bug #1451065 - CVE-2017-8934 pcmanfm: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451065 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade menu-cache' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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