[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: apache-commons-daemon-1.0.7-1.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-10880
2011-08-15 20:21:33
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Name        : apache-commons-daemon
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.0.7
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://commons.apache.org/daemon
Summary     : Defines API to support an alternative invocation mechanism
Description :
The scope of this package is to define an API in line with the current
Java Platform APIs to support an alternative invocation mechanism
which could be used instead of the public static void main(String[])
method.  This specification covers the behavior and life cycle of what
we define as Java daemons, or, in other words, non interactive
Java applications.

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Update Information:

This update fixes several bugs and also security issue CVE-2011-2729.

Users are encouraged to update as soon as possible.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #730400 - CVE-2011-2729 jakarta-commons-daemon: jsvc does not drop capabilities allowing access to files and directories owned by the superuser
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730400
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