Fedora 20 Update: lynis-1.4.1-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-2772
2014-02-21 23:46:05
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Name        : lynis
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.4.1
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://cisofy.com/lynis/
Summary     : Security and system auditing tool
Description :
Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux and you might even call
it a compliance tool. It scans the system and installed software. Then it
performs many individual security control checks. It determines the hardening
state of the machine, detects security issues and provides suggestions to
improve the security defense of the system.

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Update Information:

* 1.4.1 (2014-02-15)

New:
--plugin-dir parameter

Changes:
- Added 64 bits locations for Apache modules
- Add start of new category to logfile
- Extended sysstat test with /etc/cron.d/sysstat [ACCT-9626]
- Extended cron job tests with entries start with asterix (*) [SCHD-7704]
- Additional check for multiple umask entries (like RHEL 6.x) [AUTH-9328]
- Adjusted PHP test for register_globals (explicit test) [PHP-2368]
- Small adjustments for upcoming plugin support
- Extended man page
* 1.4.0 (2014-01-29)

Changes:
- Removed some warnings, to prevent double messages
- Extended accounting check for Linux [ACCT-9622]
- Added consistency check to time test [TIME-3124]
- Added support for anacron jobs [SCHD-7704]
- Rewrite of YUM repository test [PKGS-7383]
- Use binary variables for hostid creation
- AIX version detection changed
- Added rpcinfo to binaries check
- Ignore LANG global setting
- Improved logging
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 19 2014 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.4.1-1
- Update to 1.4.1
* Fri Feb  7 2014 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.4.0-1
- Update to 1.4.0
* Fri Jan 10 2014 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.3.9-1
- Update to 1.3.9
* Sat Dec 28 2013 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.3.8-1
- Update to 1.3.8
* Thu Dec 12 2013 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.3.7-1
- Update to 1.3.7
* Wed Dec  4 2013 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.3.6-1
- Update to 1.3.6
* Tue Nov 26 2013 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.3.5-1
- Update to 1.3.5
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1066331 - lynis-1.4.1 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066331
  [ 2 ] Bug #1059598 - lynis-1.4.0 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059598
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update lynis' 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
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