Fedora 24 Moderate Advisory: Menu-Cache DoS Risk Due To Socket Creation

Menu-cache is a caching mechanism for freedesktop.org compliant menus to

speed up parsing of the menu entries. It is currently used by some of

components of the LXDE desktop environment such as LXPanel or LXLauncher.

A potential security flaw is found on LXDE products, which create socket under

/tmp with some predictable names, which may leads to DOS. The security flow on

lxterminal is now assigned as CVE-2016-10369. Some other components also had

similar issues. These new rpms should fix these issues. At least relogin is

required to make this fix effect.

[ 1 ] Bug #1449114 - CVE-2016-10369 lxterminal: Insecure use of /tmp for a socket file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449114

[ 2 ] Bug #1451070 - CVE-2017-8933 menu-cache: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451070

[ 3 ] Bug #1451065 - CVE-2017-8934 pcmanfm: Insecure temporary file creation in get_socket_name function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451065

su -c 'dnf upgrade menu-cache' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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