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Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-9886 Critical Security Fix for libreport

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial security patches released for libreport in Fedora 22 targeting severe vulnerabilities and affirming software reliability.
Security fixes for: * CVE-2015-3315 * CVE-2015-3142 * CVE-2015-1869 * CVE-2015-1870

Summary

Libraries providing API for reporting different problems in applications

to different bug targets like Bugzilla, ftp, trac, etc...

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora security fix application security system integrity libreport

Change Log

* Tue Jun 9 2015 Jakub Filak 2.6.0-1 - 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 - switch the default dump dir mode to 0640 - fix races in dump directory handling code - improve development documentation - translations updates * Wed May 20 2015 Matej Habrnal 2.5.1-2 - reporter-mantisbt: switch from 'analyzer' to 'type' - report client: provide cpio log when unpacking fails - report client: check owner of /var/cache/abrt-di when unpacking fails - reporter-mantisbt: add event for reporting AVCs - translations updates - bugzilla: Spell Bugzilla, not BZ in UI

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 libreport' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: libreport
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.6.0
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/wiki/ABRT-Project
Summary: Generic library for reporting various problems

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security advisory critical Fedora security fix application security system integrity libreport

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