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TITLE:
Fedora update for iputils

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40944

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-08-12

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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for iputils. This fixes a weakness, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error within the "ping" utility when
processing certain echo reply packets. This can be exploited to e.g.
cause a high CPU usage by tricking a user into pinging a malicious
server.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update iputils").

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2010-12273:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045280.html

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