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Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-176 Critical: PVM Bug Fix for DoS

Updated package.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-176 2005-02-25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : pvm Version : 3.4.5 Release : 2_FC3 Summary : Libraries for distributed computing. Description : PVM3 (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a library and daemon that allows distributed processing environments to be constructed on heterogeneous machines and architectures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Fri Feb 25 2005 Jason Vas Dias 3.4.5-2_FC3 - Fix bug 147337 - invalid format string in pvmlog.c - make version compare < that of FC4 * Wed Feb 2 2005 Jason Vas Dias 3.4.5-1 - Upgrade to upstream version 3.4.5 (bug 143156). * Thu Jun 24 2004 Lon Hohberger 3.4.4-21 - Include fix for #110349 (segfaults on x86-64) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee - rebuilt * Wed Mar 31 2004 Lon Hohberger 3.4.4-19 - Fix for #11239 - remove the env vars stuff from /etc/profile.d * Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee - rebuilt * Fri Dec 12 2003 Jens Petersen - 3.4.4-17 - rebuild for tcl/tk 8.4 * Tue Nov 18 2003 Lon Hohberger 3.4.4-16 - Rebuild/tag to include patch. * Tue Nov 18 2003 Lon Hohberger 3.4.4-15 - Fix for bugzilla #110277. * Wed Jun 4 2003 Elliot Lee - rebuilt * Thu May 1 2003 Elliot Lee 3.4.4-13 - Fix for ppc64, s390x * Wed Feb 19 2003 Bill Nottingham 3.4.4-12 - fix setting of PVM_ARCH (#79812) * Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers - rebuilt * Wed Jan 15 2003 Jens Petersen 3.4.4-10 - rebuild to update tcltk deps - encode changelog in utf-8 * Tue Dec 10 2002 Tim Powers 3.4.4-9 - rebuild to fix broken tcltk deps - remove unpackaged files from the buildroot * Tue Dec 10 2002 Phil Knirsch 3.4.4-8 - Make it build on x86_64 again with lib64 stuff. * Tue Dec 3 2002 Elliot Lee 3.4.4-7 - Fix prep section in comments * Mon Oct 7 2002 Phil Knirsch 3.4.4-6.2p - Added s390x, x86_64 and ia64 support - Fixed x86 support. * Mon Jul 22 2002 Florian La Roche - add patch: * Fri May 24 2002 Phil Knirsch 3.4.4-2b - Updated patch for mainframe. * Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers - automated rebuild * Tue Jun 18 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød 3.4.4-4 - Build on IA64 * Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers - automated rebuild * Tue Apr 2 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød 3.4.4-2 - Don't explicitly strip * Wed Mar 13 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød 3.4.4-1 - 3.4.4 - Disable old patches... * Sun Jun 24 2001 Elliot Lee - Bump release + rebuild. * Tue Apr 3 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - Add a trigger to fix dangling symlinks from previous installs * Sat Mar 24 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - Fix pvmd.1 - Don't install init scripts - users need to start this themselves * Mon Feb 5 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - minor cleanups * Sat Jan 27 2001 Karsten Hopp - added s390 patch - FIXME: tmpnam is used at several functions, better use mkstemp * Tue Jan 23 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - change gettextizing * Wed Jan 17 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - gettextize * Fri Oct 20 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - LINUX isn't LINUX on Alpha, it's LINUXALPHA (#19389) * Fri Aug 18 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - add README.RedHat for setup instructions - some enviroment variables need to be set for pvm to work * Tue Aug 15 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - use /var/run/pvm3 for state files (#16217) for a long and healthy life, uninterrupted by tmpwatch * Sat Aug 5 2000 Bill Nottingham - condrestart fixes * Mon Jul 17 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - move back to /etc/rc.d/init.d * Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector - automatic rebuild * Thu Jul 6 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - "Prereq:", not "Requires:" for /etc/init.d * Thu Jul 6 2000 TrondEivind Glomsrød - require /etc/init.d * Mon Jun 26 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - really move the initscript, not just the paths inside it * Mon Jun 26 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - add conditional restart to initscripts and specfile - move initscript to /etc/init.d * Wed Jun 14 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - Added patch to make compile with new tool chain - use %{_tmppath}, %{_mandir} * Wed May 10 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - added handling of arguments to pvm.sh/xpvm.sh * Fri Apr 28 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - added some extra initialization - removed gzipping - handled automatically * Thu Apr 27 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - added URL - changed source location - use netlib - fix location of documentation files * Mon Apr 17 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød - fixed a problem with the PVM man page - gzip the man pages - should now be able to compile with several tcl/tk versions without problems * Mon Mar 6 2000 Mike Wangsmo - fixed the useradd failure mode when user already exists - finally, the init script seems to behave nicely as user pvm * Sun Mar 5 2000 Mike Wangsmo - fixed quirk in init script to allow PVMD_NOHOLD=ON to be honored * Fri Feb 18 2000 Mike Wangsmo - added env. variable to make pvmd background when started - fixed init script killproc errors - moved to 3.4.3 proper * Tue Feb 15 2000 Mike Wangsmo - fixed up some group ID stuff * Mon Feb 14 2000 Mike Wangsmo - added pvm user to package * Wed Feb 9 2000 Mike Wangsmo - added sparc64 identifier to pvmgetarch - configured pvmd within the init script to run as user pvm * Sat Feb 5 2000 Mike Wangsmo - changed pvm-gui group - set chkconfig to be off in all run levels as the default * Fri Feb 4 2000 Mike Wangsmo - added sysV init script - added a shell wrapper in /usr/bin for the pvm shell - moved up to 3.4.2pl4 * Wed Feb 2 2000 Mike Wangsmo - added some missing files for xpvm towork * Mon Jan 24 2000 Mike Wangsmo - dropped all non-linux stuff - split the packages up - added xpvm - "fixed" Sparc * Mon Nov 29 1999 Tim Powers - updated to 3.4.2 * Sun Sep 5 1999 Tim Powers - excludearch sparc * Wed Jul 28 1999 Tim Powers - update to 3.4.1 - comment out the patches in prep section, will test, if it works then it stays commented * Wed May 5 1999 Bill Nottingham - update to 3.4.0 final * Tue Oct 27 1998 Cristian Gafton - added a patch for the SIGCLD -> SIGCHLD rename - fixed the incredibly stupid spec file to have a much shorter %files list * Mon Oct 12 1998 Michael Maher - updated pacakge for 5.2 powertools. * Sat Jun 6 1998 Michael Maher - updated source - changed spec file for all archs * Wed Dec 3 1997 Mike Wangsmo - fixed patches to cleanly build on glibc - corrected alpha inuendos * Wed Dec 3 1997 Otto Hammersmith - snagged Wanger's package. - moved buildroot from /var/tmp to /var/tmp/pvm-root ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: c11c457219509d7378a515d2ea74d41d SRPMS/pvm-3.4.5-2_FC3.src.rpm 7e9fd91303b2cfa426eb01e81d825af4 x86_64/pvm-3.4.5-2_FC3.x86_64.rpm 317bf3ae972bab1647072874e372a4d3 x86_64/pvm-gui-3.4.5-2_FC3.x86_64.rpm c600fbd0c7221462c4e8b8f555d8bc38 x86_64/debug/pvm-debuginfo-3.4.5-2_FC3.x86_64.rpm 4d8d137acfac4a99bb38ec17742c98dc i386/pvm-3.4.5-2_FC3.i386.rpm 335d9ad921ab150c9b2671ffb5b1e1ee i386/pvm-gui-3.4.5-2_FC3.i386.rpm 4571295c610fbcfdbb3dab57c3f800f1 i386/debug/pvm-debuginfo-3.4.5-2_FC3.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Patch release for Fedora Core 3's PVM toolkit, focusing onfixing severe issues and improving the efficiency of distributed computations.. Fedora Update,PVM Library,Distributed Processing,Linux Updates,System Enhancements. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 25, 2005 •Critical Fedora