Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-1069 (dnsmasq)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: dnsmasq-2.45-1.fc9 | |
| Date: | Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:11:22 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20090214221123.EB89E20852E@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-1069 2009-01-29 22:29:32 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : dnsmasq Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.45 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/ Summary : A lightweight DHCP/caching DNS server Description : Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP for network booting of diskless machines. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to newer upstream version - 2.45. Version of dnsmasq previously shipped in Fedora 9 did not properly drop privileges, causing it to run as root instead of intended user nobody. Issue was caused by a bug in kernel-headers used in build environment of the original packages. (#454415) New upstream version also adds DNS query source port randomization, mitigating DNS spoofing attacks. (CVE-2008-1447) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jul 21 2008 Patrick "Jima" Laughton <jima@beer.tclug.org> 2.45-1 - Upstream release (bugfixes) * Wed Jul 16 2008 Patrick "Jima" Laughton <jima@beer.tclug.org> 2.43-2 - New upstream release, contains fixes for CVE-2008-1447/CERT VU#800113 - Dropped patch for newer glibc (merged upstream) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #449345 - CVE-2008-1447 implement source UDP port randomization (CERT VU#800113) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449345 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dnsmasq' 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...