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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-2318
2011-03-01 03:42:19
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Name : logwatch
Product : Fedora 13
Version : 7.3.6
Release : 55.fc13
URL :
http://www.logwatch.org/
Summary : A log file analysis program
Description :
Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go
through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas
that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out
of the package on many systems.
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Update Information:
This update fixes CVE-2011-1018: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Feb 28 2011 Karel Klic <kklic@redhat.com> - 7.3.6-55
- Added fix for CVE-2011-1018: Privilege escalation due improper
sanitization of special characters in log file names (rhbz#680237)
* Sat Oct 9 2010 Richard Fearn <richardfearn@gmail.com> 7.3.6-54
- named: match "DNS format error", and variants of existing messages
(rhbz#595222)
* Sat Oct 9 2010 Richard Fearn <richardfearn@gmail.com> 7.3.6-53
- named: match "clients-per-query increased" as well as "decreased"
* Sat Oct 9 2010 Richard Fearn <richardfearn@gmail.com> 7.3.6-52
- Update dhcpd patch so that "Information-request" messages are matched
(rhbz#624590)
* Mon Apr 19 2010 Karel Klic <kklic@redhat.com> 7.3.6-51
- Removed obsolete chmod and touch calls from the spec file
- Added manpages for configuration files (rhbz#525644)
- Ignore broken trust chain messages in named service (rhbz#581186)
- Re-enabled zz-fortune service (#573450)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #680237 - CVE-2011-1018 logwatch: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680237
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update logwatch' 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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