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Fedora 23: perl-IPTables-Parse Security Update Addresses File Risks

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2015
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Prompt Debian security patch for python-XML-Parser addresses vulnerabilities related to data leakage, bolstering overall system protection.
- Update to IPTables-Parse-1.5 - Fix use of predictable temporary file names

Summary

The IPTables::Parse package provides an interface to parse iptables rules

on Linux systems through the direct execution of iptables commands, or from

parsing a file that contains an iptables policy listing. You can get the

current policy applied to a table/chain, look for a specific user-defined

chain, check for a default DROP policy, or determing whether or not logging

rules exist.

Update Information:

- Update to IPTables-Parse-1.5 - Fix use of predictable temporary file names

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora temporary file security risk IPTables

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1267962 - perl-IPTables-Parse: Use of predictable names for temporary files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267962

Update Instructions

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

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Name: perl-IPTables-Parse
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.5
Release: 2.fc23
URL: http://www.cipherdyne.org/modules/
Summary: Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora temporary file security risk IPTables

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