[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: pcp-3.6.5-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11988
2012-08-16 16:49:50
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Name        : pcp
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 3.6.5
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp
Summary     : System-level performance monitoring and performance management
Description :
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) provides a framework and services to support
system-level performance monitoring and performance management.

The PCP open source release provides a unifying abstraction for all of
the interesting performance data in a system, and allows client
applications to easily retrieve and process any subset of that data.

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Update Information:

Security and bugfix update. Security flaws fixed include CVE-2012-3418 CVE-2012-3419 CVE-2012-3420 and CVE-2012-3421
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #841698 - CVE-2012-3418 pcp: multiple integer and heap-based buffer overflow flaws
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841698
  [ 2 ] Bug #841702 - CVE-2012-3419 pcp: privileged information diclosure flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841702
  [ 3 ] Bug #841704 - CVE-2012-3420 pcp: two memory leaks can lead to pcmd crash or trigger OOM killer
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841704
  [ 4 ] Bug #841706 - CVE-2012-3421 pcp: event-driven programming flaw blocks pmcd from responding to other legitimate requests
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841706
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update pcp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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