[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: acpid-2.0.9-4.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-6681
2011-05-07 15:02:02
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Name        : acpid
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.0.9
Release     : 4.fc15
URL         : http://tedfelix.com/linux/acpid-netlink.html
Summary     : ACPI Event Daemon
Description :
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.

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Update Information:

This update fixes acpid to properly handle SysVinit -> systemd upgrades.

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #688698 - CVE-2011-1159 acpid: blocked writes can lead to acpid daemon hang
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update acpid' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project 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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