[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: bird-1.6.8-1.fc29
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-b629e3b97f
2019-09-20 01:33:15.991438
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Name : bird
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 1.6.8
Release : 1.fc29
URL : https://bird.network.cz
Summary : BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
Description :
BIRD is a dynamic IP routing daemon supporting both, IPv4 and IPv6, Border
Gateway Protocol (BGPv4), Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng), Open
Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3), Babel Routing Protocol (Babel),
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), IPv6 router advertisements, static
routes, inter-table protocol, command-line interface allowing on-line control
and inspection of the status of the daemon, soft reconfiguration as well as a
powerful language for route filtering.
This package contains IPv4 version.
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Update Information:
BIRD 1.6.8 (2019-09-10) ======================= * Several important bugfixes
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Sep 11 2019 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.8-1
- Upgrade to 1.6.8 (#1751031, #1751349)
* Mon Aug 5 2019 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.7-1
- Upgrade to 1.6.7
* Sat Mar 30 2019 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.6-1
- Upgrade to 1.6.6
* Fri Jan 18 2019 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.5-1
- Upgrade to 1.6.5
- Modernization and cleanup of spec file
- Ensure /etc/bird.conf can be only read by BIRD user
* Mon Nov 12 2018 Stanislav Kozina <skozina(a)redhat.org> - 1.6.4-2
- bird should run under bird user and group rather than root (#1397574)
- bird should run in foreground (#1285672)
* Mon Nov 12 2018 Stanislav Kozina <skozina(a)redhat.org> - 1.6.4-1
- Update bird to 1.6.4 (#1642737)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1751031 - CVE-2019-16159 bird: incorrect logical expressionwhen checking the
validity of an input message leads to stack-based buffer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751031
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-b629e3b97f' 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
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