[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: rssh-2.3.4-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-20109
2012-12-11 00:57:21
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Name        : rssh
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.3.4
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/
Summary     : Restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp
Description :
rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp
and/or sftp. For example, if you have a server which you only want
to allow users to copy files off of via scp, without providing shell
access, you can use rssh to do that. It is a alternative to scponly.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.3.4 and fix CVE-2012-2251
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec 10 2012 Tomas Hoger <thoger at fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.4-1
- Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
- Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
  CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
- Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
- Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
  generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
  regression).
* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.3-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #880177 - CVE-2012-2252 rssh: incorrect filtering of rsync --rsh command line option
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880177
  [ 2 ] Bug #880174 - CVE-2012-2251 rssh: bypass of rsync -e option filtering
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880174
  [ 3 ] Bug #820414 - CVE-2012-3478 rssh: circumvention of rssh restrictions using environment variables
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820414
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update rssh' 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
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