[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: logwatch-7.3.6-66.20110203svn25.fc15
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Fri Mar 11 06:09:05 UTC 2011
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-2396
2011-03-01 06:42:27
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Name : logwatch
Product : Fedora 15
Version : 7.3.6
Release : 66.20110203svn25.fc15
URL : http://www.logwatch.org/
Summary : A log file analysis program
Description :
Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go
through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas
that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out
of the package on many systems.
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Update Information:
This update fixes CVE-2011-1018: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #680237 - CVE-2011-1018 logwatch: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680237
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update logwatch' 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 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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