[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: systemd-44-6.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6456
2012-04-24 03:08:58
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Name        : systemd
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 44
Release     : 6.fc17
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Summary     : A System and Service Manager
Description :
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with
SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization
capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services,
offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using
Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system
state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an
elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can
work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

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Update Information:

This update fixes:
* a bug that could be exploited to delete arbitrary directories.
* F17 blocker bug 805942.

Forward-compatible short command names `loginctl`, `journalctl` were added.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #803358 - CVE-2012-1174 systemd (systemd-logind): TOCTOU race condition by removing user session
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803358
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update systemd' 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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