Fedora EPEL 6 Update: lynis-1.4.1-1.el6

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0605
2014-02-20 05:23:37
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Name        : lynis
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 1.4.1
Release     : 1.el6
URL         : http://cisofy.com/lynis/
Summary     : Security and system auditing tool
Description :
Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux and you might even call
it a compliance tool. It scans the system and installed software. Then it
performs many individual security control checks. It determines the hardening
state of the machine, detects security issues and provides suggestions to
improve the security defense of the system.

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Update Information:

* 1.4.1 (2014-02-15)

New:
--plugin-dir parameter

Changes:
- Added 64 bits locations for Apache modules
- Add start of new category to logfile
- Extended sysstat test with /etc/cron.d/sysstat [ACCT-9626]
- Extended cron job tests with entries start with asterix (*) [SCHD-7704]
- Additional check for multiple umask entries (like RHEL 6.x) [AUTH-9328]
- Adjusted PHP test for register_globals (explicit test) [PHP-2368]
- Small adjustments for upcoming plugin support
- Extended man page
* 1.4.0 (2014-01-29)

Changes:
- Removed some warnings, to prevent double messages
- Extended accounting check for Linux [ACCT-9622]
- Added consistency check to time test [TIME-3124]
- Added support for anacron jobs [SCHD-7704]
- Rewrite of YUM repository test [PKGS-7383]
- Use binary variables for hostid creation
- AIX version detection changed
- Added rpcinfo to binaries check
- Ignore LANG global setting
- Improved logging
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1066331 - lynis-1.4.1 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066331
  [ 2 ] Bug #1059598 - lynis-1.4.0 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059598
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update lynis' 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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