Fedora 12: dstat Security Update
Summary
Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.
Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features,
more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems
during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.
Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources instantly, you
can eg. compare disk usage in combination with interrupts from your
IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly
with the disk throughput (in the same interval).
Dstat gives you detailed selective information in columns and clearly
indicates in what magnitude and unit the output is displayed. Less
confusion, less mistakes.
Update Information:
This release fixes above mentioned security issue, adds several enhancements and fixes few other bugs. For complete information, please see changelog.
Change Log
* Thu Dec 3 2009 Jan Zeleny
References
[ 1 ] Bug #538459 - CVE-2009-3894 dstat insecure module search path https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538459
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dstat' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
