[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: python-paste-script-1.7.5-1.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0586
2012-02-24 23:01:51
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Name        : python-paste-script
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 1.7.5
Release     : 1.el5
URL         : http://pythonpaste.org/script
Summary     : A pluggable command-line frontend
Description :
Paster is pluggable command-line frontend, including commands to setup package
file layouts

Built-in features:

 * Creating file layouts for packages.
   For instance a setuptools-ready file layout.
 * Serving up web applications, with configuration based on paste.deploy

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Update Information:

This update fixes a security flaw with Paster that prevents it from properly dropping privileges when run as root.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #796790 - CVE-2012-0878 python-paste-script: Supplementary groups not dropped when started an application with "paster serve" as root
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796790
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update python-paste-script' 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 EPEL 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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