-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0586 2012-02-24 23:01:51 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : python-paste-script Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 1.7.5 Release : 1.el5 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
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This update fixes a security flaw with Paster that prevents it from properly dropping privileges when run as root. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. 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 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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