[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: systemd-37-15.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2557
2012-02-28 09:13:18
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Name        : systemd
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 37
Release     : 15.fc16
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Summary     : A System and Service Manager
Description :
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with
SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization
capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services,
offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using
Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system
state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an
elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can
work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

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Update Information:

This systemd update adds several fixes:

* logind created files under /run/user/ in an insecure manner. A local attacker could create a symlink inside arbitrary directories (CVE-2012-0871).
* permissions of PrivateTmp directories (RHBZ#790522)
* timedated did not run without ntp installed (RHBZ#790260)
* logind: allow PowerOff and Reboot via polkit
* loading of empty files in read_one_line_file() (fdo#45362)
* fix cgit URLs in manpages
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar  1 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-15
- logind: move X11 socket
* Mon Feb 27 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-14
- A few fixes from upstream:
  - PrivateTmp permissions (#790522)
  - timedated without ntp installed (#790260)
  - logind: allow PowerOff and Reboot via polkit
  - loading empty files in read_one_line_file() (fdo#45362)
  - fix cgit URLs in manpages
* Thu Feb  9 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-13
- Minor fixes and some manpage updates from upstream.
* Sun Jan 29 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-12
- Avoid a glitch with plymouth (#785548).
- Fix logind capabilities.
* Thu Jan 26 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-11
- Fix automount regression.
* Sat Jan 21 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-10
- Fix occasionally failing socket units with Accept=yes (#783344).
* Fri Jan 20 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-9
- Fix a crash related to pid file watch and daemon-reload (#783118).
- Added Conflicts with known broken spamassassin.
* Tue Jan 17 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-8
- Shut up another logind message (#727315).
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-7
- Fix for quota and a couple of other issues.
* Wed Jan 11 2012 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-6
- Fixes and low-risk enhancements (no journald) from upstream v38.
* Fri Dec  2 2011 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> - 37-5
- add upstream patch for bugzilla 744415, encrypted filesystem passphrases 
  fail on runtime systems in hvc consoles
* Tue Nov 15 2011 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-4
- Run authconfig if /etc/pam.d/system-auth is not a symlink.
- Resolves: #753160
* Wed Nov  2 2011 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-3
- Fix remote-fs-pre.target and its ordering.
- Resolves: #749940
* Wed Oct 19 2011 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 37-2
- A couple of fixes from upstream:
- Fix a regression in bash-completion reported in Bodhi.
- Fix a crash in isolating.
- Resolves: #717325
* Tue Oct 11 2011 Lennart Poettering <lpoetter at redhat.com> - 37-1
- New upstream release
- Resolves: #744726, #718464, #713567, #713707, #736756
* Thu Sep 29 2011 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 36-5
- Undo the workaround. Kay says it does not belong in systemd.
- Unresolves: #741655
* Thu Sep 29 2011 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> - 36-4
- Workaround for the crypto-on-lvm-on-crypto disk layout
- Resolves: #741655
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #795853 - CVE-2012-0871 systemd: insecure file creation may lead to elevated privileges
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update systemd' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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