[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: krb5-appl-1.0.1-7.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9080
2011-07-06 20:54:21
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Name        : krb5-appl
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.0.1
Release     : 7.fc15
URL         : http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
Summary     : Kerberos-aware versions of telnet, ftp, rsh, and rlogin
Description :
This package contains Kerberos-aware versions of the telnet, ftp, rcp, rsh,
and rlogin clients and servers.  While these have been replaced by tools
such as OpenSSH in most environments, they remain in use in others.

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Update Information:

This update corrects a potential failure to properly set the effective group ID in the GSSAPI-capable FTP server (MITKRB5-SA-2011-005, CVE-2011-1526).
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul  5 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.0.1-7
- ftpd: add candidate patch to detect setegid/setregid/setresgid and check
  for errors when calling them (MITKRB5-SA-2011-005, CVE-2011-1526, #713341)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #711419 - CVE-2011-1526 krb5, krb5-appl: ftpd incorrect group privilege dropping (MITKRB5-SA-2011-005)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711419
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update krb5-appl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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