[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: sectool-0.9.5-7.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5432
2012-04-06 20:57:23
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Name        : sectool
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.9.5
Release     : 7.fc16
URL         : https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/sectool/wiki/WikiStart
Summary     : A security audit system and intrusion detection system
Description :
sectool is a security tool that can be used both as a security audit
and intrusion detection system. It consists of set of tests, library
and command line interface tool. Tests are sorted into groups and security
levels. Admins can run certain tests, groups or whole security levels.
The library and the tools are implemented in python and tests are
language independent.

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Update Information:

Fixing dbus config privilege escalation
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr  3 2012 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec at redhat.com> - 0.9.5-7
- fixing dbus config privilege escalation (#809437)
* Sun Mar  4 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.5-6
- PolicyKit -> polkit since F-11
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.5-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #809437 - CVE-2012-1615 Merely installing sectool grants some permissions to users?
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809437
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update sectool' 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
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