[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: systemtap-1.5-8.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9722
2011-07-26 02:57:18
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Name        : systemtap
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.5
Release     : 8.fc15
URL         : http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
Summary     : Instrumentation System
Description :
SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6.
Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation
of the system.

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Update Information:

This update fixes CVE-2011-2502 and CVE-2011-2503, which affected unprivileged mode (stapusr) installations.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jul 25 2011 Frank Ch. Eigler  - 1.5-8
- CVE-2011-2502, CVE-2011-2503
* Fri Jul 15 2011 William Cohen  - 1.5-7
- Fix sdt.h to avoid warning on arm arches.
* Mon Jul 11 2011 William Cohen  - 1.5-6
- there is no crash available on arm arches
* Fri Jun 10 2011 Stan Cox  - 1.5-4
- PR 12899
* Fri Jun 10 2011 Stan Cox  - 1.5-3
- Don't massage dtrace -o FILENAME arg
* Thu Jun  2 2011 Stan Cox  - 1.5-2
- Add explicit 'Requires python' dependency
* Mon May 23 2011 Stan Cox  - 1.5-1
- Upstream release.
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #716476 - CVE-2011-2502 systemtap: insufficient security check when loading uprobes kernel module
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716476
  [ 2 ] Bug #716489 - CVE-2011-2503 systemtap: signed module loading race condition
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716489
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update systemtap' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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