[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: systemtap-1.7-2.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2218
2012-02-23 01:56:35
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Name        : systemtap
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.7
Release     : 2.fc15
URL         : http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
Summary     : Programmable system-wide instrumentation system
Description :
SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux.
Developers can write instrumentation scripts to collect data on
the operation of the system.  The base systemtap package contains/requires
the components needed to locally develop and execute systemtap scripts.

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Update Information:

This respin fixes the CVE-2012-0875 vulnerability.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 22 2012 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat.com> - 1.7-2
- CVE-2012-0875 (kernel panic when processing malformed DWARF unwind data)
* Wed Feb  1 2012 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat.com> - 1.7-1
- Upstream release.
- Reorganize subpackages, new -client and -devel for subset installations.
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 1.6-4
- Fixes for gcc-4.7 based on upstream commits e14c86 and 47caa9.
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Dec  6 2011 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 1.6-2
- Rebuild for new libpng
* Mon Jul 25 2011 Stan Cox <scox at redhat.com> - 1.6-1
- Upstream release.
* Mon Jul 25 2011 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat.com> - 1.5-8
- CVE-2011-2502, CVE-2011-2503
* Fri Jul 15 2011 William Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> - 1.5-7
- Fix sdt.h to avoid warning on arm arches.
* Mon Jul 11 2011 William Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> - 1.5-6
- there is no crash available on arm arches
* Fri Jun 10 2011 Stan Cox <scox at redhat.com> - 1.5-4
- PR 12899
* Fri Jun 10 2011 Stan Cox <scox at redhat.com> - 1.5-3
- Don't massage dtrace -o FILENAME arg
* Thu Jun  2 2011 Stan Cox <scox at redhat.com> - 1.5-2
- Add explicit 'Requires python' dependency
* Mon May 23 2011 Stan Cox <scox at redhat.com> - 1.5-1
- Upstream release.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #796329 - CVE-2012-0875 systemtap: kernel panic when processing malformed DWARF unwind data [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796329
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update systemtap' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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