-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-b7e8e980ef 2016-10-10 17:40:40.963439 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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This update backports several fixes from upstream and also fixes sandbox issues including CVE-2016-7545 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1378577 - CVE-2016-7545 policycoreutils: SELinux sandbox escape via TIOCSTI ioctl https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378577 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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/.
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