Fedora 21: 2015-13471 Critical: Audit Terminal Escape Repair
fedora
August 19, 2015
This update fixes CVE-2015-5186
Summary
The audit package contains the user space utilities for
storing and searching the audit records generate by
the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
Update Information:
This update fixes CVE-2015-5186. The issue is that ausearch/report did not escape terminal emulator sequences when interpreting untrusted data.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Thu Aug 13 2015 Steve Grubb
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-13471 2015-08-14 23:17:39
Name : audit Product : Fedora 21 Version : 2.4.4 Release : 1.fc21 URL : https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/ Summary : User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing Description : The audit package contains the user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generate by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update audit' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: audit
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 2.4.4
Release: 1.fc21
Summary: User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing
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