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Fedora 24 pcmanfm Update Critical: lxterminal Denial of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A vulnerability in lxterminal and various LXDE applications has been resolved with updated RPM packages for Fedora 24.
A potential security flaw is found on LXDE products, which create socket under /tmp with some predictable names, which may leads to DOS

Summary

PCMan File Manager is an extremly fast and lightweight file manager

which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface.

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 pcmanfm' 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.2.5
Release: 2.fc24
URL: Summary : Extremly fast and lightweight file manager

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