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Fedora 22: RPCBind Update Critical: Segmentation Fault Fix Available

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2015
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Fedora 22 has released a crucial update for Rpcbind that fixes segmentation fault vulnerabilities and improves the efficiency of RPC operations. Discover further details today!
rpcbind-0.2.3-0.4.fc23 - Fixed Seg fault in PMAP_CALLIT code (bz1264351) rpcbind-0.2.3-0.3.fc22 - Fixed Seg fault in PMAP_CALLIT code (bz 1264351)

Summary

The rpcbind utility is a server that converts RPC program numbers into

universal addresses. It must be running on the host to be able to make

RPC calls on a server on that machine.

Update Information:

rpcbind-0.2.3-0.4.fc23 - Fixed Seg fault in PMAP_CALLIT code (bz1264351) rpcbind-0.2.3-0.3.fc22 - Fixed Seg fault in PMAP_CALLIT code (bz 1264351)

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1159941 - Add nss-altfiles to rpcbind user lookup path https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159941 [ 2 ] Bug #1264351 - CVE-2015-7236 rpcbind: Use-after-free vulnerability in PMAP_CALLIT [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264351

Update Instructions

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

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Name: rpcbind
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.2.3
Release: 0.3.fc22
URL: Summary : Universal Addresses to RPC Program Number Mapper

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