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Fedora 25 PC Security Update: Addressing Critical XSS Vulnerability Fix

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Essential Fedora security patch tackles potential XSS vulnerability in pcs by correcting node name validation flaws. Update immediately!
- Security fix for CVE-2017-2661: Improper node name field validation when creating clusters leads to XSS - Re-added support for clufter as it is now available for Python 3

Summary

pcs is a corosync and pacemaker configuration tool. It permits users to

easily view, modify and create pacemaker based clusters.

Update Information:

- Security fix for CVE-2017-2661: Improper node name field validation when creating clusters leads to XSS - Re-added support for clufter as it is now available for Python 3

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1428948 - CVE-2017-2661 pcs: Improper node name field validation when creating clusters leads to XSS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1428948

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade pcs' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: pcs
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.9.156
Release: 2.fc25
URL: https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pcs
Summary: Pacemaker Configuration System

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