Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-7767 Moderate: Network-Manager-Applet DoS
fedora
May 11, 2015
This is an update of NetworkManager, the VPN plugins, applet and connection editor to 1.0.2 stable release
Summary
This package contains a network control and status notification area applet
for use with NetworkManager.
Update Information:
This is an update of NetworkManager, the VPN plugins, applet and connection editor to 1.0.2 stable release.
The update includes bug fixes, feature additions, translation updates and a fix for the CVE-2015-2924 denial of service security issue with low impact.
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1209902 - CVE-2015-2924 NetworkManager: denial of service (DoS) attack against IPv6 network stacks due to improper handling of Router Advertisements
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209902
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update network-manager-applet' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: network-manager-applet
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.0.2
Release: 1.fc22
Summary: A network control and status applet for NetworkManager
Topics Covered
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