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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-12252
2010-08-07 22:45:37
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Name : iputils
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 20071127
Release : 12.fc12
URL :
http://www.skbuff.net/iputils
Summary : Network monitoring tools including ping
Description :
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.
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Update Information:
CVE-2010-2529 iputils: denial of service vulnerability in ping
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Aug 5 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 20071127-12
- fixes #617613 - CVE-2010-2529 iputils: denial of service vulnerability in ping
* Tue May 11 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 20071127-11
- fixes #583976 - ping6 does not support -F flowlabel option
* Thu Mar 4 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 20071127-10
- fixes #557308 - arping ignores the deadline option
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #613819 - CVE-2010-2529 iputils: denial of service vulnerability in ping
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613819
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update iputils' 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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