[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: perl-Proc-ProcessTable-0.48-1.fc18
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-13635
2013-07-25 22:56:30
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Name : perl-Proc-ProcessTable
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 0.48
Release : 1.fc18
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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ChangeLog:
* Wed Jul 24 2013 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> - 0.48-1
- Update to 0.48
- Make module thread-safe on linux (CPAN RT#38709)
- New constructor flag enable_ttys, which when set to 0 disables traversing
the device tree
- New maintainer JSWARTZ
- Fix reading process command lines (CPAN RT#51470)
- Fixes for non-threaded perls (CPAN RT#41397, CPAN RT#46861, CPAN RT#58236)
- Fix file descriptor leak (CPAN RT#69397)
- Fix unsafe use of /tmp (CPAN RT#72862, CVE-2011-4363)
- Various fixes for non-linux operating systems
- Fix byte order tag in cache file (CPAN RT#72862)
- Fixes to stay accurate on machines with many CPUs (CPAN RT#82175), to
include system time into calculations (CPAN RT#80391) and others
(CPAN RT#81312, CPAN RT#82175 and CPAN RT#80391)
- Fix unknown process states for debian kernels (CPAN RT#71976)
- Added tests
- Drop ARG_MAX patch, no longer needed
- Don't use macros for commands
- Don't need to remove empty directories from the buildroot
- Don't ship empty TODO file
- Drop %defattr, redundant since rpm 4.4
- Specify all dependencies
- Add %{?perl_default_filter}
* Thu Jul 18 2013 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 0.44-14
- Perl 5.18 rebuild
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.44-13
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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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 program. Use
su -c 'yum update perl-Proc-ProcessTable' at the command line.
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