Fedora Core 4: Important Security Update for setup-2.5.44-1.1

The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system

utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among

others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login

program.

- fix #167200 - finger reports "never logged in" if run as non-root

(change perms of /var/log/lastlog to 0644)

* Mon Aug 29 2005 Karel Zak 2.12p-9.8

- fix #166923 - hwclock will not run on a non audit-enabled kernel

- fix #159410 - mkswap(8) claims max swap area size is 2 GB

d5f58df469eeab3be19e7edec03ba674 SRPMS/util-linux-2.12p-9.9.src.rpm

ff6e2dee430f6c57b222ce98bbbc08a4 ppc/util-linux-2.12p-9.9.ppc.rpm

77824d02d7d9f75bf78950e08d34d830 ppc/debug/util-linux-debuginfo-2.12p-9.9.ppc.rpm

56dfea31f804e263054c16348c0108b2 x86_64/util-linux-2.12p-9.9.x86_64.rpm

e97833047141c1ca15ce9294c7ae84e7 x86_64/debug/util-linux-debuginfo-2.12p-9.9.x86_64.rpm

7805c2cb8783b275319e4427f545601a i386/util-linux-2.12p-9.9.i386.rpm

57aa2eebcf6cab55a088e022dd74900d i386/debug/util-linux-debuginfo-2.12p-9.9.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

From: "Bill Nottingham" "

To: fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

Subject: Fedora Core 4 Update: setup-2.5.44-1.1

FEDORA-2005-000

2005-09-06

The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and

setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile.

- make lastlog 0644 (#167200)

5f0bff9438e942dc4219cdefd8b90707 SRPMS/setup-2.5.44-1.1.src.rpm

9a8cae39a81f9075e910de8879d6532c x86_64/setup-2.5.44-1.1.noarch.rpm

9a8cae39a81f9075e910de8879d6532c i386/setup-2.5.44-1.1.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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