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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-78901 Important - nbd Exploit Mitigation Update

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch addresses vulnerable signal processes to thwart Denial of Service threats in Fedora 21's nbd application.
* Fix unsafe signal handlers to avoid DoS attack [CVE-2015-0847].

Summary

Tools for the Linux Kernel's network block device, allowing you to use

remote block devices over a TCP/IP network.

Update Information:

* Fix unsafe signal handlers to avoid DoS attack [CVE-2015-0847].

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora DoS network block device signal handler

Change Log

* Sat Jul 11 2015 Christopher Meng - 3.11-1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1222027 - CVE-2015-0847 nbd: nbd-server denial of service due to unsafe signal handlers https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222027

Update Instructions

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

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Name: nbd
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.11Release : 1.fc21
URL:
Summary: Network Block Device user-space tools (TCP version)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora DoS network block device signal handler

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