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Fedora Core 3: Security Advisory for PolicyCoreUtils SELinux Update

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.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-072 2005-02-02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : policycoreutils Version : 1.18.1 Release : 2.6 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Mon Jan 24 2005 Dan Walsh 1.18.1-2.6 - Merge upstream changes for fixfiles,restorecon and setfiles * Wed Jan 12 2005 Dan Walsh 1.18.1-2.5 - Fix another segfault in restorecon if no context is defined * Mon Jan 10 2005 Dan Walsh 1.18.1-2.4 - Fix segfault in restorecon if no context is defined ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: ec090cf2bef602a4d5e54259efc07c20 SRPMS/policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.6.src.rpm cc72e643ca20d87eea55f1f4a713b475 x86_64/policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.6.x86_64.rpm f50388bad3f7a630c59f9c494ea9e4ca x86_64/debug/policycoreutils-debuginfo-1.18.1-2.6.x86_64.rpm 2907daf82f84fdae11805692124b2475 i386/policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.6.i386.rpm eaa6b58eea624e067db342c682803d4b i386/debug/policycoreutils-debuginfo-1.18.1-2.6.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. . Upgrading Fedora Core 3 through policycoreutils to bolster SELinux security measures. Key updates and features explained comprehensively.. SELinux Enhancement,Fedora Update,PolicyCoreUtils,Security Patching. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 02, 2005 •Important Fedora