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Fedora 21: LXC Security Update - Process Isolation Fixes

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2015
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Important update released for LXC on Fedora 21 addressing security vulnerabilities. It features crucial patches and enhancements for improved system stability and resilience
lxc-1.0.7-4.fc21 - Add some patches: - Allow building on EPEL6

Summary

Update Information:

lxc-1.0.7-4.fc21 - Add some patches: - Allow building on EPEL6. - Fix boot-order (similar to rhbz#1263612). - Prevent lxc-top crash ( rhbz#1152384 ). - Set lxc.kmsg = 0 in the config ( rhbz#1204389 ). - Use 'overlay' as fs name when needed ( rhbz#1217516 ). - Add dependency on rsync ( rhbz#1177981 ).

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1267844 - CVE-2015-1335 lxc: Directory traversal flaw when lxc-start is initially setting up the mounts for a container https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267844

Update Instructions

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

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Name: lxc
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.0.7
Release: 4.fc21
URL: https://linuxcontainers.org/
Summary: Linux Resource ContainersDescription :

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