[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: wicd-1.7.2.1-1.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5858
2012-04-14 01:39:02
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Name        : wicd
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.7.2.1
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Wireless and wired network connection manager
Description :
Wicd is designed to give the user as much control over behavior of network
connections as possible.  Every network, both wired and wireless, has its
own profile with its own configuration options and connection behavior.
Wicd will try to automatically connect only to networks the user specifies
it should try, with a preference first to a wired network, then to wireless.

This package provides the architecture-dependent components of wicd.

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Update Information:

This update fixes CVE-2012-2095.  The wicd daemon suffered from a local privilege escalation flaw due to incomplete input sanitization.  A local attacker sould use this to inject arbitrary code through the D-Bus interface.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #811762 - CVE-2012-2095 wicd: broken filtering leads to arbitrary code execution
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811762
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update wicd' 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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