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Fedora 26: Lynis 2.5.0 Released for Critical Security Audit Insights

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An essential patch for Lynis on Fedora 26, improving system tracking and adherence utilities for enhanced protection.
Update to 2.5.0 / https://cisofy.com/security/cve/cve-2017-8108/

Summary

Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux and you might even call

it a compliance tool. It scans the system and installed software. Then it

performs many individual security control checks. It determines the hardening

state of the machine, detects security issues and provides suggestions to

improve the security defense of the system.

Update to 2.5.0 / https://cisofy.com/security/cve/cve-2017-8108/

su -c 'dnf upgrade lynis' 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/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.5.0
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: Security and system auditing tool

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