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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-1d45339c16
2016-10-02 23:32:19.274773
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Name : python-inotify
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 0.9.6
Release : 6.fc23
URL :
https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify
Summary : Monitor filesystem events with Python under Linux
Description :
This is a Python module for watching filesystems changes. pyinotify
can be used for various kind of fs monitoring. pyinotify relies on a
recent Linux Kernel feature (merged in kernel 2.6.13) called
inotify. inotify is an event-driven notifier, its notifications are
exported from kernel space to user space.
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Update Information:
Switch to more safe loading of Python module.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1347124 - Arbitrary code execution due to insecure loading of Python
module(s) from CWD
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347124
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update python-inotify' 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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