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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-6b639afc9c
2017-04-25 12:28:36.811916
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Name : collectd
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 5.6.2
Release : 1.fc24
URL :
https://collectd.org/
Summary : Statistics collection daemon for filling RRD files
Description :
collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically
and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways,
for example in RRD files.
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Update Information:
Fix CVE-2017-7401 collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction of
parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions. This is a bug in the
network plugin.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1439674 - CVE-2017-7401 collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction
of parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439674
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade collectd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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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