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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-b7e8e980ef
2016-10-10 17:40:40.963439
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Name : policycoreutils
Product : Fedora 25
Version : 2.5
Release : 17.fc25
URL :
http://www.selinuxproject.org
Summary : SELinux policy core 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.
policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required
for basic operation of a SELinux system. These utilities include
load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole
to switch roles.
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Update Information:
This update backports several fixes from upstream and also fixes sandbox issues
including CVE-2016-7545
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1378577 - CVE-2016-7545 policycoreutils: SELinux sandbox escape via TIOCSTI
ioctl
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378577
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update policycoreutils' 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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