[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: systemd-229-20.fc24
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-0a1b2d495a
2017-06-11 16:12:28.834667
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Name : systemd
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 229
Release : 20.fc24
URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Summary : A System and Service Manager
Description :
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with
SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization
capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services,
offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using
Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system
state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an
elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.
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Update Information:
A security fix for a systemd-resolved crash on a crafted DNS packet. Relevant
only to systemd-resolved users (not enabled by default). No need to reboot or
logout.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1455493 - CVE-2017-9217 systemd: Null pointer dereference in
dns_packet_is_reply_for function
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1455493
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade systemd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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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