Fedora 27: Update for Systemd Security Issues and Memory Fixes

systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts

the rest of the system. It provides aggressive parallelization

capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services,

offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using

Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points, and

implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control

logic. systemd supports SysV and LSB init scripts and works as a

replacement for sysvinit. Other parts of this package are a logging daemon,

utilities to control basic system configuration like the hostname,

date, locale, maintain a list of logged-in users and running

containers and virtual machines, system accounts, runtime directories

and settings, and daemons to manage simple network configuration,

network time synchronization, log forwarding, and name resolution.

- a few memory leaks and unitialized memory accesses - systemd-networkd Remotemust be a unicast address (upstream issue #8088) - add /run/systemd/user to the

unit lookup path (upstream issue #8119) - various fixes for journalctl leaking

file descriptors on very quick file rotation (upstream issues #7998, #8198) -systemd-resolved aborting on malformed packets (upstream issue #7888, oss-fuzz

issue #5465) No need to reboot or logout.

su -c 'dnf upgrade systemd' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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