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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-f9cfcef9d6
2017-12-09 21:09:01.033184
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Name : collectd
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 5.8.0
Release : 2.fc26
URL :
https://collectd.org/
Summary : Statistics collection daemon for filling RRD files
Description :
collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically
and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways,
for example in RRD files.
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Update Information:
Upstream released new version. See
https://collectd.org/news.shtml#news106 for
the list of changes. Fixes CVE-2017-16820 (double free in snmp plugin)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1516450 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function
in snmp.c [epel-7]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516450
[ 2 ] Bug #1516449 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function
in snmp.c [epel-6]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516449
[ 3 ] Bug #1516451 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function
in snmp.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516451
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade collectd' 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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