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Fedora Core 3 FEDORA-2004-591 Moderate: SELinux Policy Utilities Update

backport restorecon and fixfiles from rawhide. to eliminate bad warning. messages and fix handling of rpm files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-591 2005-01-10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : policycoreutils Version : 1.18.1 Release : 2.3 Summary : SELinux policy core utilities. Description : Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security. policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required for basic operation of a SELinux system. These utilities include load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole to switch roles, and run_init to run /etc/init.d scripts in the proper context. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: - backport restorecon and fixfiles from rawhide. to eliminate bad warning - messages and fix handling of rpm files ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 015ddec80a6af6894f3042159b4ba1ee SRPMS/policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.3.src.rpm 5e51c6b29776d3c236eb02c71685efae x86_64/policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.3.x86_64.rpm adb266a7a59018754a394afd9b1d9977 x86_64/debug/policycoreutils-debuginfo-1.18.1-2.3.x86_64.rpm 6d01bf0223d29d85784419047eb9cba3 i386/policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.3.i386.rpm 81757cd4cb9cdcf18c7f2b728f78fed5 i386/debug/policycoreutils-debuginfo-1.18.1-2.3.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. . The latest revision to Fedora's policycoreutils bolsters SELinux fundamental tools, improving system oversight and enhancing access permissions.. SELinux Utilities,Fedora Update,System Management,Access Control,Policy Update. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 10, 2005 •Important Fedora