[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: python-paste-script-1.7.5-4.fc17
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Thu Apr 12 01:57:06 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2302
2012-02-23 22:26:08
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Name : python-paste-script
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 1.7.5
Release : 4.fc17
URL : http://pythonpaste.org/script
Summary : A pluggable command-line frontend
Description :
Paster is pluggable command-line frontend, including commands to setup package
file layouts
Built-in features:
* Creating file layouts for packages.
For instance a setuptools-ready file layout.
* Serving up web applications, with configuration based on paste.deploy
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Update Information:
This update fixes a security flaw with Paster that prevents it from properly
dropping privileges when run as root.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #796790 - CVE-2012-0878 python-paste-script: Supplementary groups not dropped when started an application with "paster serve" as root
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796790
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update python-paste-script' 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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