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Fedora 9: 2009-1675 Moderate Advisory for Trickle Arbitrary Code Load

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Calendar Grey February 24, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Notification regarding the enhancements to trickle address CVE-2009-0415, focusing on the remediation of code execution vulnerabilities and the implementation of fortifying security protocols.
New patch for CVE-2009-0415 Fix for #484065 - CVE-2009-0415 trickle: Possibility to load arbitrary code from current working directory

Summary

trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper.

It can run in collaborative mode or in stand alone mode.

trickle works by taking advantage of the unix loader preloading.

Essentially it provides, to the application,

a new version of the functionality that is required

to send and receive data through sockets.

It then limits traffic based on delaying the sending

and receiving of data over a socket.

trickle runs entirely in userspace and does not require root privileges.

New patch for CVE-2009-0415 Fix for #484065 - CVE-2009-0415 trickle: Possibility

to load arbitrary code from current working directory

* Thu Feb 12 2009 Nicoleau Fabien 1.07-7

- Replace sed with a patch for #484065 (CVE-2009-0415)

* Fri Feb 6 2009 Nicoleau Fabien 1.07-6

- Add a fix for bug #484065 (CVE-2009-0415)

* Thu Aug 28 2008 Manuel Wolfshant 1.07-5

- modify trickle-1.07-include_netdb.patch to adjust for building with fuzz=0

* Sun Jun 29 2008 Nicoleau Fabien 1.07-4

- rebuild for new libevent

[ 1 ] Bug #484065 - CVE-2009-0415 trickle: Possibility to load arbitrary code from current working directory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484065

su -c 'yum update trickle' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.07
Release: 7.fc9
URL: /
Summary: Portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper

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