[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: freeradius-2.2.0-0.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-15342
2012-10-04 02:03:15
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Name        : freeradius
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.2.0
Release     : 0.fc18
URL         : http://www.freeradius.org/
Summary     : High-performance and highly configurable free RADIUS server
Description :
The FreeRADIUS Server Project is a high performance and highly configurable
GPL'd free RADIUS server. The server is similar in some respects to
Livingston's 2.0 server.  While FreeRADIUS started as a variant of the
Cistron RADIUS server, they don't share a lot in common any more. It now has
many more features than Cistron or Livingston, and is much more configurable.

FreeRADIUS is an Internet authentication daemon, which implements the RADIUS
protocol, as defined in RFC 2865 (and others). It allows Network Access
Servers (NAS boxes) to perform authentication for dial-up users. There are
also RADIUS clients available for Web servers, firewalls, Unix logins, and
more.  Using RADIUS allows authentication and authorization for a network to
be centralized, and minimizes the amount of re-configuration which has to be
done when adding or deleting new users.

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Update Information:

This updates to the current upstream 2.2.0 release which is configuration compatible with the prior 2.1.12.

Version 2.2.0 includes a security fix for CVE-2012-3547 Stack-based buffer overflow

This update also includes a fix to prevent .rpmsave and .rpmnew files from being read from the configuration directories.

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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update freeradius' 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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