Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-6aada550ca Critical BIRD Security Update

BIRD is dynamic routing daemon supporting IPv4 and IPv6 versions of routing

protocols BGP, RIP and OSPF.

This package contains IPv4 version.

Updating bird to 1.6.4 release which includes fix for CVE-2018-12066 Running

bird in foreground Bird is running under bird user and group rather than root

* Mon Nov 12 2018 Stanislav Kozina - 1.6.4-2

- bird should run under bird user and group rather than root (#1397574)

- bird should run in foreground (#1285672)

* Mon Nov 12 2018 Stanislav Kozina - 1.6.4-1

- Update bird to 1.6.4 (#1642737)

[ 1 ] Bug #1285672 - Bird should start in foreground in the systemd unit

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285672

[ 2 ] Bug #1642737 - bird-1.6.4 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1642737

[ 3 ] Bug #1588771 - CVE-2018-12066 bird: Stack overflow in BGP mask expressions [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588771

[ 4 ] Bug #1397574 - Bird should drop privileges

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397574

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-6aada550ca' 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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