-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-4633 2008-05-28 22:54:44 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : system-config-network Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.5.10 Release : 1.fc8 URL : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SystemConfig/network Summary : The GUI of the Network Adminstration Tool Description : This is the GUI of the network configuration tool, supporting Ethernet, Wireless, TokenRing, ADSL, ISDN and PPP.
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This security update fixes system-config-network-1.5.5-1.fc8, where the console file from Fedora 9 was distributed. This bug enabled every console user to change the network configuration. Systems with system-config- network-1.5.5-1.fc8 installed should install this update. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Tue May 27 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.10 - fixed Makefile.am * Tue May 27 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.9 - fixed console perms for Fedora <= 8 * Fri May 16 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.8 - copy info from DNS page into each ifcfg file (dcbw) * Fri Apr 25 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.7 - NCisdnhardware.card -> NCisdnhardware._card (harald) - Fixed pap-secret parsing. (#rhbz#443347) (jmoskovc) * Tue Apr 8 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.6 - translation update - check origLine for None (harald) * Mon Mar 31 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.5 - fixed more rhbz#439718 * Mon Mar 31 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.4 - fixed typos in DialupDruid (harald) - return None is nothing is selected (harald) - fixed #438901: Network Device Control doesn't work unless s-c-n has been run once (harald) - fixed #435041 and added UnitTest (harald) - be case-independent in mode parsing rhbz#433748 (harald) - fixed rhbz#429725 (harald) - do not traceback on non-int Volume (harald) - fixed rhbz#439718 (harald) * Sat Mar 29 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.3 - readded DialupDruid (harald) * Sat Mar 29 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.2 - devices which are controlled by NM cannot be activated/deactivated (rhbz#438902) - use ". config-util" in console-apps config file (rhbz#428408) (harald) - use xdg-open instead of htemlview (rhbz#415031) (harald) - added sr@latin (rhbz#425845) - update buttons on device edit change (harald) - fixed some Alias handling (harald) - removed Init2 string (clashes with UTMS) (harald) - no activate/deactivate/delete NMControlled devices (harald) - NCPluginDevTokenRing return None if no dialog (harald) - BackendHal fix to use Factory classes, no kudzu hw import (harald) - check if hostname is not None, before checking it (harald) - added tui/NCPluginTokenRingInterface (harald) - MTU moved to base device (rhbz#439202) (harald) - fixed import for ParseError (harald) * Thu Feb 28 2008 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.1 - removed CIPE (harald) - s/Devernet/Network/ (harald) - Auto -> auto (harald) - only append localhost to AliasList, if not already in (harald) - show error dialog, if device loading failes (harald) - moved MRU to Dialup only (harald) - recognize qeth devices in kudzu lists (rhbz#184734) (harald) - added MRU field (rhbz#221294) (harald) - added TUI for QETH (harald) - do not traceback, if we try to remove a device not in our active list (harald) - added qeth support (harald) - removed ctc and iucv devices (rhbz#219180) (harald) - do not handle ifcfg-${parent_device}-range* rhbz#221292 (harald) - Minor fix in hosts parser to make tui works. (jmoskovc) - Stupid mode doesn't go away anymore.(rhbz#177931) (jmoskovc) - Fixed crash when Baud=None (jmoskovc) - Removing PPP option should work. NETWORKMANAGER -> NM_CONTROLLED (jmoskovc) - Fixed problem with import rhbz#429725 (jmoskovc) - Changed Clist in host editor to GtkTreeView, added checkbox to show loopbacks in hosts (jmoskovc) - Minor fix in hosts parser - now it accepts trailing dot. (jmoskovc) - Improved {pap|chap}-secrets parser, added checkbox to reveal password in dialup config (jmoskovc) - Fixed crash when hostname is changed. (jmoskovc) * Mon Dec 3 2007 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.5.0 - v1.5.0 * Mon Dec 3 2007 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com, Jiri Moskovcak jmoskovc@redhat.com - 1.4.7 - added HAL support - fixed /etc/hosts parser - added "Controlled by NetworkManager" - do not fall into modified state for activate/deactivate (rhbz#377261) * Mon Nov 12 2007 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.4.6 - moved network.xpm to (pkgdatadir)/pixmaps (rhbz#377861) * Mon Nov 12 2007 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.4.5 - changed yelp to htmlview * Wed Nov 7 2007 Stepan Kasal skasal@redhat.com - 1.4.4 - s/NEtwork/Network/ in the summary of -tui, to be consistent with the summary line of the main rpm (the neat acronym is no longer advertised anyway) - Resolves: #239216 * Fri Oct 26 2007 Harald Hoyer harald@redhat.com - 1.4.4 - removed not yet used NCBackendHal.py (rhbz#353771) - fixed yelp dependency (rhbz#344981) - moved %configure to %build (rhbz#353761) - fixed type with getRoot (rhbz#368871) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #448557 - CVE-2008-2359 system-config-network: network configuration change by the unprivileged user https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448557 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update system-config-network' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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