-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-2462 2007-10-10 19:33:26.380124 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : util-linux Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.13 Release : 0.54.1.fc7 URL : [] Summary : A collection of basic system utilities. Description : The util-linux 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Mon Oct 8 2007 Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com 2.13-0.54.1 - fix #320131 - CVE-2007-5191 util-linux (u)mount doesn't drop privileges properly when calling helpers [F7] * Wed Aug 8 2007 Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com 2.13-0.54 - backport mount relatime patch * Thu Aug 2 2007 Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com 2.13-0.53 - fix #236848 - mount/fstab.c:lock_mtab() should open with proper permissions - fix #238918 - blockdev --getsize does not work properly on devices with more than 2^31 sectors * Mon Jul 9 2007 Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com 2.13-0.52 - fix #245578 - login's PAM configuration inits the keyring at an inconvenient time - fix #231532 - "pamconsole" not documented in mount(8) - fix #243930 - translation files exist, but are not being used - fix #228731 - sfdisk doesn't support DM-MP device (add default heads and sectors) - fix #231192 - ipcs is not printing correct values on pLinux - fix #245912 - mount doesn't write the 'loop=...' option in /etc/mtab when mounting a loop device - fix #213253 - "cal -3" generates improperly formatted output -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #320041 - CVE-2007-5191 util-linux (u)mount doesn't drop privileges properly when calling helpers https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=320041 [ 2 ] CVE-2007-5191 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5191 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages:
2aedbaafdf347aa298558a56e9d9020f88e3acc4 util-linux-debuginfo-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.ppc64.rpm 67f580fe186fb81b20a88eb512c13a994b45578b util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.ppc64.rpm 15837b21fccb7a8160aa262f8c89e7c96edad4c1 util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.i386.rpm f638d85d5ca00df21ac9de9a0da03fd56a9ab8c7 util-linux-debuginfo-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.i386.rpm e6a30062c8d8047473dad04ad489c3262828eb18 util-linux-debuginfo-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.x86_64.rpm e463d60a90473d8d76dbd23e0557c91b12dbb77c util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 86cdcf5c587ff53d897101ee157ddd626fd424fe util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.ppc.rpm 46b432df12c7f46cb49564dc06818c5fcc1c8aa0 util-linux-debuginfo-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.ppc.rpm 7f6962c44ca92c98c0a9b5b10355df7d50669b44 util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update util-linux' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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