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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2017-79b7fd1b4d Critical: check-mk Error Handling

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patch for check-mk in Fedora 27 rectifying CVE-2017-1495 vulnerability related to error management.
Security fix for CVE-2017-1495

Summary

check-mk is a general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data. It adopts a

new approach for collecting data from operating systems and network components.

It obsoletes NRPE, check_by_ssh, NSClient, and check_snmp and it has many

benefits, the most important are a significant reduction of CPU usage on

the Nagios host and an automatic inventory of items to be checked on hosts.

Security fix for CVE-2017-1495

[ 1 ] Bug #1497971 - CVE-2017-14955 check-mk: Mishandles certain errors within the failed-login save feature because of a race condition

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1497971

su -c 'dnf upgrade check-mk' 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

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.2.8p26
Release: 1.fc27
URL: Summary : A new general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data

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