Fedora 13 Update: iputils-20071127-13.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-16286
2010-10-14 06:02:39
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Name        : iputils
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 20071127
Release     : 13.fc13
URL         : http://www.skbuff.net/iputils
Summary     : Network monitoring tools including ping
Description :
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Oct 12 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 20071127-13
- fixes #642005 - arping -c option broken for even numbers, even worse when combined with -w
* Thu Aug  5 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 20071127-12
- fixes #617613 - CVE-2010-2529 iputils: denial of service vulnerability in ping
* Wed Jun 30 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 20071127-11
- fixes #583976 - ping6 does not support -F flowlabel option
- fixes nvr upgrade issue
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #642005 - arping -c option broken for even numbers, even worse when combined with -w
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642005
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update iputils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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