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Fedora: 2015-9886 Moderate: ABRT Multiple Threats Addressed

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore the updates of Fedora 22 as it addresses vulnerabilities in abrt, enhancing security and reliability, while also providing a smoother user experience
Security fixes for: * CVE-2015-3315 * CVE-2015-3142 * CVE-2015-1869 * CVE-2015-1870

Summary

abrt is a tool to help users to detect defects in applications and

to create a bug report with all information needed by maintainer to fix it.

It uses plugin system to extend its functionality.

Update Information:

Security fixes for: * CVE-2015-3315 * CVE-2015-3142 * CVE-2015-1869 * CVE-2015-1870 * CVE-2015-3151 * CVE-2015-3150 * CVE-2015-3159

abrt: - Move the default dump location from /var/tmp/abrt to /var/spool/abrt - Use root for owner of all dump directories - Stop reading hs_error.log from /tmp - Don not save the system logs by default - Don not save dmesg if kernel.dmesg_restrict=1

libreport: - Harden the code against directory traversal, symbolic and hard link attacks - Fix a bug causing that the first value of AlwaysExcludedElements was ignored - Fix missing icon for the "Stop" button icon name - Improve development documentation - Translations updates

gnome-abrt: - Enabled the Details also for the System problems - Do not crash in the testing of availabitlity of XServer - Fix 'Open problem's data directory' - Quit Application on Ctrl+Q - Translation updates

satyr: - New kernel taint flags - More secure core stacktraces from core hook

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora moderate severity multiple threats bug reporting ABRT

Change Log

* Tue Jun 9 2015 Jakub Filak 2.6.0-1 - move the default dump location to /var/spool/abrt from /var/tmp/abrt - hooks: use root for owner of all dump directories - ccpp: do not unlink failed and big user cores - ccpp: don't save the system logs by default - ccpp: stop reading hs_error.log from /tmp - ccpp: emulate selinux for creation of compat cores - koops: don't save dmesg if kernel.dmesg_restrict=1 - dbus: validate passed arguments - turn off exploring crashed process's root directories - abrt-python: bug fixes and improvements - fixes for CVE-2015-3315, CVE-2015-3142, CVE-2015-1869, CVE-2015-1870 - fixes for CVE-2015-3147, CVE-2015-3151, CVE-2015-3150, CVE-2015-3159 - spec: add abrt-dbus to Rs of abrt-python and abrt-cli - spec: restart abrt-dbus in posttrans * Wed May 20 2015 Matej Habrnal 2.5.1-3 - applet: fix problem info double free - upload: validate and sanitize uploaded dump directories - applet: switch to D-Bus methods - lib: add new kernel taint flags - abrt-auto-reporting: require rhtsupport.conf file only on RHEL - doc, polkit: Spelling/grammar fixes - applet: migrate Autoreporting options to GSettings - config UI: read glade from a local file first - config UI: Automatic reporting from GSettings - Resolves: #1211644

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1216975 - CVE-2015-3159 abrt: missing process environment sanitizaton in abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216975 [ 2 ] Bug #1214609 - CVE-2015-3150 abrt: abrt-dbus does not guard against crafted problem directory path arguments [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214609 [ 3 ] Bug #1214452 - CVE-2015-3151 abrt: directory traversals in several D-Bus methods implemented by abrt-dbus [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214452 [ 4 ] Bug #1212871 - CVE-2015-1870 abrt: default abrt event scripts lead to information disclosure [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212871 [ 5 ] Bug #1212865 - CVE-2015-1869 abrt: default event scripts follow symbolic links [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212865 [ 6 ] Bug #1212821 - CVE-2015-3142 abrt: abrt-hook-ccpp writes core dumps to exis...

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Update Instructions

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

Name: abrt
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.6.0
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/wiki/ABRT-Project
Summary: Automatic bug detection and reporting tool

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora moderate severity multiple threats bug reporting ABRT

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