[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: libcgroup-0.36.2-6.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-2631
2011-03-04 09:42:07
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Name        : libcgroup
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 0.36.2
Release     : 6.fc14
URL         : http://libcg.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Tools and libraries to control and monitor control groups
Description :
Control groups infrastructure. The tools and library help manipulate, control,
administrate and monitor control groups and the associated controllers.

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Update Information:

Two security bugs were fixed in this release:

* CVE-2011-1006: Heap-based buffer overflow by converting list of controllers for given task into an array of strings

* CVE-2011-1022: Unchecked origin of NETLINK messages
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar  3 2011 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> 0.36.2-6
- Fixed CVE-2011-1022 and CVE-2011-1006
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #680409 - CVE-2011-1022 libcgroup: Uncheck origin of NETLINK messages
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680409
  [ 2 ] Bug #678107 - CVE-2011-1006 libcgroup: Heap-based buffer overflow by converting list of controllers for given task into an array of strings
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678107
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libcgroup' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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