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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-6026
2012-06-02 01:51:22
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Name : nut
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 2.2.2
Release : 3.el5
URL :
http://www.networkupstools.org/
Summary : Network UPS Tools
Description :
These programs are part of a developing project to monitor the assortment
of UPSes that are found out there in the field. Many models have serial
ports of some kind that allow some form of state checking. This
capability has been harnessed where possible to allow for safe shutdowns,
live status tracking on web pages, and more.
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Update Information:
fix heap-based buffer overflow due improper processing of non-printable characters in
random network data (CVE-2012-2944)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #826489 - CVE-2012-2944 nut: Heap-based buffer overflow due improper
processing of non-printable characters in random network data
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826489
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update nut' 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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