Fedora 12 Update: mingetty-1.08-5.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-16624
2010-10-27 21:11:47
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Name        : mingetty
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.08
Release     : 5.fc12
URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingetty/
Summary     : A compact getty program for virtual consoles only
Description :
The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for
use only on virtual consoles.  Mingetty is not suitable for serial
lines (you should use the mgetty program in that case).

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Update Information:

In addition, deprecated syslog facility has been updated to modern LOG_AUTHPRIV constant
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Oct 26 2010 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 1.08-5
- Check chroot(), chdir(), and nice() (bug #635412)
- Open syslog with AUTPRIV facility
- Limit TTY name length to prevent buffer overflow (bug #551754)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #551754 - Buffer overflow in open_tty()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551754
  [ 2 ] Bug #635412 - unsafe chroot() calls in mingetty
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635412
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mingetty' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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