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Fedora: 2009-10849 Critical: Systemtap DoS Fixes in Unprivileged Mode

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora systemtap revision targets three critical DoS vulnerabilities in non-root environments to bolster both security protocols and system reliability.
Fixes three DOS issues in --unprivileged mode

Summary

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6.

Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation

of the system.

Update Information:

Fixes three DOS issues in --unprivileged mode. (CVE-2009-2911)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update Fedora DoS systemtap

Change Log

* Wed Oct 21 2009 Josh Stone - 1.0-2 - Fix three --unprivileged DOS issues (CVE-2009-2911) * Tue Sep 22 2009 Josh Stone - 1.0-1 - Upstream release. * Tue Aug 4 2009 Josh Stone - 0.9.9-1 - Upstream release. * Thu Jun 11 2009 Josh Stone - 0.9.8-1 - Upstream release. * Thu Apr 23 2009 Josh Stone - 0.9.7-1 - Upstream release. * Fri Mar 27 2009 Josh Stone - 0.9.5-1 - Upstream release. * Wed Mar 18 2009 Will Cohen - 0.9-2 - Add location of man pages. * Tue Feb 17 2009 Frank Ch. Eigler - 0.9-1 - Upstream release.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #529175 - CVE-2009-2911 SystemTap 1.0: Multiple denial of service flaws once --unprivileged mode is activated https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529175

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update systemtap' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: systemtap
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.0
Release: 2.fc10
URL: https://sourceware.org/systemtap/
Summary: Instrumentation System

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update Fedora DoS systemtap

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