[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ypserv-2.29-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-13268
2012-09-03 22:26:51
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Name        : ypserv
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.29
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ypserv/index.html
Summary     : The NIS (Network Information Service) server
Description :
The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides
network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group
information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can allow users
to log in on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has
the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in
the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages
(YP).

This package provides the NIS server, which will need to be running on
your network. NIS clients do not need to be running the server.

Install ypserv if you need an NIS server for your network. You also
need to install the yp-tools and ypbind packages on any NIS client
machines.

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Update Information:

This is an update to a new upstream release that fixes several memory leaks considered as a security issue.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Sep  3 2012 Honza Horak <hhorak at redhat.com> - 2.29-1
- Update to new upstream version that fix memory leaks (Related: #845283)
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ypserv' 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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