[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: udev-153-5.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-17912
2010-11-19 21:53:06
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Name        : udev
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 153
Release     : 5.fc13
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
Summary     : A userspace implementation of devfs
Description :
The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in
userspace using sysfs and netlink.

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Update Information:

It was discovered that /dev/systty device file created by dracut-generated initramfs scripts used an insecure file permissions.  This could possibly allow local user to snoop on other user's terminal.

Updated dracut no longer creates this file as device file, rather creates it a symbolic link to tty0 device file.  However, for this change to take effect, user needs to re-generate initramfs (any initramfs for all kernels that are going to be booted in the future) using updated dracut version and reboot the system.

On Fedora 13, dracut update addressing this flaw was previously released as bug fix update.  This update only provides updated udev packages that replace systty device file with a symlink on udev package upgrade and each udev start.  This provides a work-around fix for users that fail to regenerate their initramfs and reboot as described above.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 18 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 153-5
- fix /dev/systty
Resolves: rhbz#654935
* Wed Sep 22 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 153-4
- fixed SELinux contexts on "add" events
- backported keymaps
- backported cdrom_id
* Fri Aug 13 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 153-3
- revert the default trigger to "add"
* Wed Aug  4 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 153-2
- trigger with action==add
- add rd_NO_MDIMSM on noiswmd kernel cmdline option
Resolves: rhbz#589774
- fix console switching and ACLs
Resolves: rhbz#608712
- fix key mapping for Samsung N210
Resolves: rhbz#606302
- fix for blank or audio CDs
Resolves: rhbz#606285
- fix for scsi changer
Resolves: rhbz#600983
* Mon Aug  2 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 153-1
- version 153, because device-mapper needs IMPORT{db}
- do not remove udev database
Resolves: rhbz#610925
* Thu Jun 10 2010 Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> 151-10
- Revert patch for hid2hci rules, fixes keyboards not going
  into HCI (Bluetooth) mode after being plugged in (#595178)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #654489 - CVE-2010-4176  dracut: /dev/systty permissions could allow remote users to snoop on local users
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654489
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update udev' at the command line.
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