[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: iproute-2.6.39-5.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-3008
2012-03-06 18:59:13
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Name        : iproute
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.6.39
Release     : 5.fc16
URL         : http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/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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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar  1 2012 Petr Šabata <contyk at redhat.com> - 2.6.39-5
- Address dangerous /tmp files security issue (CVE-2012-1088, #797881, #797878)
* Thu Nov 24 2011 Petr Šabata <contyk at redhat.com> - 2.6.39-4
- Display closed UDP sockets on 'ss -ul' (#691100)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #797878 - CVE-2012-1088 iproute: multiple insecure temporary file use issues
        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/.

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