[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: iproute-3.2.0-3.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2818
2012-03-02 00:55:13
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Name        : iproute
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 3.2.0
Release     : 3.fc17
URL         : http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/networking/iproute2/
Summary     : Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools
Description :
The iproute package contains networking utilities (ip and rtmon, for example)
which are designed to use the advanced networking capabilities of the Linux
2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel.

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Update Information:

Address dangerous /tmp files security issue
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #797878 - CVE-2012-1088 iproute: Multiple instances of insecure temporary file use
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797878
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update iproute' 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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