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Fedora 24 GPG Key Update 2016-145afea99e Critical Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A critical patch for Fedora 24 has been released to tackle CVE-2016-6299, alongside updates regarding the renaming of GPG keys for Mageia.
* Security fix for CVE-2016-6299 * Additionally GPG key for Mageia has been renamed

Summary

GPG keys used by various Linux distributions to sign packages.

Update Information:

* Security fix for CVE-2016-6299 * Additionally GPG key for Mageia has been renamed

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora privilege escalation critical update GPG keys

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1375490 - CVE-2016-6299 mock: privilige escalation via mock-scm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375490

Update Instructions

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

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Name: distribution-gpg-keys
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.7
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/distribution-gpg-keys
Summary: GPG keys of various Linux distributions

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora privilege escalation critical update GPG keys

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