Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-5885 Critical: Netcf Interface Name Fix
fedora
April 29, 2015
Security fix for CVE 2014-8119, as well as adding a few other minor bugfixes and enhancements (support for multiple IPv4 addresses, simultaneous static & dhcp for IPv4)
Summary
Netcf is a library used to modify the network configuration of a
system. Network configurations are expressed in a platform-independent
XML format, which netcf translates into changes to the system's
'native' network configuration files.
Update Information:
Security fix for CVE 2014-8119, as well as adding a few other minor bugfixes and enhancements (support for multiple IPv4 addresses, simultaneous static & dhcp for IPv4)
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1172176 - CVE-2014-8119 netcf: augeas path expression injection via interface name
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172176
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update netcf' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: netcf
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.2.8
Release: 1.fc22
Summary: Cross-platform network configuration library
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