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Fedora 25 Mock Privilege Escalation Security Update 2016-34e61fa48d

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora enhances the mock package addressing a security vulnerability linked to privilege escalation, while simultaneously updating the GPG key used for Mageia.
* Security fix for CVE-2016-6299 * Additionally GPG key for Mageia has been renamed

Summary

Mock takes an SRPM and builds it in a chroot.

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 software update privilege escalation security fix mock GPG key

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 mock' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mock
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.2.21
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mock
Summary: Builds packages inside chroots

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update privilege escalation security fix mock GPG key

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