[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: squashfs-tools-4.2-5.fc16
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 13 05:56:05 UTC 2012
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-19227
2012-11-28 10:39:28
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : squashfs-tools
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 4.2
Release : 5.fc16
URL : http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems
Description :
Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. This package
contains the utilities for manipulating squashfs filesystems.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:
Backported fixes for bz 842458 (CVE-2012-4024) and bz 842460 (CVE-2012-4025)
Backported fix for bz 842458 (CVE-2012-4024)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ChangeLog:
* Sun Nov 25 2012 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> - 4.2-5
- Backported fix for bz 842460 (CVE-2012-4025)
* Thu Nov 22 2012 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> - 4.2-4
- Backported fix for bz 842458 (CVE-2012-4024)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #842458 - CVE-2012-4024 squashfs-tools: remote arbitrary code execution via crafted list file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842458
[ 2 ] Bug #842460 - CVE-2012-4025 squashfs-tools: integer overflow in queue_init() may lead to abitrary code execution
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842460
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update squashfs-tools' 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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the package-announce
mailing list