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Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-7767 Moderate: Network-Manager-Applet DoS

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2015
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A recent security patch for the network-manager-applet in Fedora 22 tackles a minor Denial of Service vulnerability, along with various enhancements and corrections.
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.

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security advisory DoS issue Fedora security patch network management applet update

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
URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps
Summary: A network control and status applet for NetworkManager

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS issue Fedora security patch network management applet update

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