[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: perl-Proc-ProcessTable-0.48-1.el6
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Fri Aug 16 17:02:48 UTC 2013
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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-10980
2013-07-26 17:13:22
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Name : perl-Proc-ProcessTable
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.48
Release : 1.el6
URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Proc-ProcessTable/
Summary : Perl extension to access the Unix process table
Description :
Perl interface to the Unix process table.
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Update Information:
This update, to the current upstream maintenance release, fixes numerous bugs (as mentioned in the package changelog), including unsafe usage of /tmp when caching is enabled (CVE-2011-4363), which could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files due to a race condition.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #758866 - CVE-2011-4363 perl-Proc-ProcessTable: unsafe temporary file usage
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758866
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update perl-Proc-ProcessTable' 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 EPEL 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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