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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-84d1f77e58
2016-07-19 22:28:39.714995
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Name : libselinux
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 2.5
Release : 9.fc24
URL :
https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki
Summary : SELinux library and simple utilities
Description :
Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux�� kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement��, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.
libselinux provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set
process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy
decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API.
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Update Information:
This is update of all SELinux Userspace packages which contains several
improvement and fixes reported mainly upstream. Please test several scenarios
like: * boot your system in enforcing mode * switch to permissive and back to
enforcing using `setenforce` * do a local modifications using `semanage
[boolean|fcontext|port|...]` * list, enable or disable modules using `semodule`
* generate a report or a module using `audit2why` and `audit2allow` * ...
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1322632 - None
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322632
[ 2 ] Bug #1255676 - None
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255676
[ 3 ] Bug #1103622 - None
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103622
[ 4 ] Bug #1247532 - None
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247532
[ 5 ] Bug #1290422 - None
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290422
[ 6 ] Bug #1320262 - None
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320262
[ 7 ] Bug #1357154 - Please back port the latest libsepol version to f24
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1357154
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libselinux' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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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