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ESB-2010.0598 - [UNIX/Linux] rpm: Increased privileges - Existing account
Date: 08 July 2010
References: ESB-2010.0677 ESB-2010.0804 ESB-2011.0270.4

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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2010.0598
          A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in rpm
                                8 July 2010

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           rpm
Publisher:         Fedora
Operating System:  Fedora 12
                   UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access:     Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2010-2198 CVE-2010-2059 

Original Bulletin: 
   http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043749.html

Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on 
         platforms other than Fedora. It is recommended that administrators 
         running rpm check for an updated version of the software for their 
         operating system.

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-10617
2010-07-01 18:07:36
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Name        : rpm
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 4.7.2
Release     : 2.fc12
URL         : http://www.rpm.org/
Summary     : The RPM package management system
Description :
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.

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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 30 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.7.2-2
- - Fix CVE-2010-2059 (#598775) and CVE-2010-2198 (#601955)
* Tue Dec  8 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.7.2-1
- - update to 4.7.2 (http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.2)
- - fix posix chmod test to unbreak %fixperms macro (#543035)
- - avoid looking into OpenPGP subkeys (#436812)
- - dont fail build on unrecognized non-executable files (#532489)
- - fix password check result when gpg is missing (#496754)
- - permit python to handle 64bit integer types from headers
- - all header integer types are unsigned, match this in python too
- - return python long objects where ints are not sufficient (#531243)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #598775 - CVE-2010-2059 rpm: fails to drop SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade or removal
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598775
  [ 2 ] Bug #601955 - CVE-2010-2198 rpm: fails to drop POSIX file capabilities/SELinux context information on package upgrade or removal
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601955
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update rpm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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/keys
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