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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-25c6d1b417 Moderate: Hesiod Weak Check Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade to Fedora 27 which fixes vulnerabilities in Hesiod concerning the use of a hardcoded DNS fallback mechanism and inadequate checks for SUID.
Fix CVE-2016-10152 (hardcoded DNS fallback) Fix CVE-2016-10151 (weak SUID check) Move package to autosetup Resolves: #1332509 Resolves: #1332494

Summary

Hesiod is a system which uses existing DNS functionality to provide access

to databases of information that changes infrequently. It is often used to

distribute information kept in the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/printcap

files, among others.

Fix CVE-2016-10152 (hardcoded DNS fallback) Fix CVE-2016-10151 (weak

SUID check) Move package to autosetup Resolves: #1332509

Resolves: #1332494

* Thu Oct 11 2018 Robbie Harwood - 3.2.1-14

- Fix CVE-2016-10152 (hardcoded DNS fallback)

- Fix CVE-2016-10151 (weak SUID check)

- Move package to autosetup

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.2.1-13

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri May 18 2018 Adam Williamson - 3.2.1-12

- Rebuild for new libidn

* Mon Apr 2 2018 Peter Robinson 3.2.1-11

- Cleanup and modernise spec

* Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.2.1-10

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1332509 - hesiod: Weak SUID check allowing privilege elevation [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332509

[ 2 ] Bug #1332494 - hesiod: Use of hard-coded unsafe configuration if configuration file cannot be opened [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332494

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-25c6d1b417' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 3.2.1
Release: 14.fc27
URL: None
Summary: Shared libraries for querying the Hesiod naming service

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