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Bug 1383855 - lsyncd 2.1.6 is available, fixes security vulnerability CVE-2014-8990
Summary: lsyncd 2.1.6 is available, fixes security vulnerability CVE-2014-8990
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lsyncd
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jason Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-12 00:44 UTC by "FeRD" (Frank Dana)
Modified: 2017-03-05 00:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-05 00:33:24 UTC
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Description "FeRD" (Frank Dana) 2016-10-12 00:44:42 UTC 
lsyncd 2.1.6 was released on October 15, 2015 and can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd/archive/release-2.1.6.tar.gz


It contains a (complete) fix, most notably, for bug #1165078 -- a long-standing security vulnerability tagged CVE-2014-8990. The current Fedora spec file applies a patch (Patch0) which addresses that issue, but inadequately.

For more info see the oss-sec discussion at this URL provided in bug #1165078 :
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/796

(Our Patch0, which is based on the rejected incomplete fix, can now be dropped as upstreamed.)


In addition, the spec file still lists the old Google Code project URL. While that page does point visitors to the new GitHub home, it doesn't make sense to send people the long way around when the spec file should be using...

URL: https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd/


Lastly (sorry), I would strongly urge removing the /bin/sh -c 'eval...' wrapper from ExecStart in lsyncd.service. See bug #1369274 for rationale. No other /etc/sysconfig/ file that I can find supports nested variables, and attempting to do so for /etc/sysconfig/lsyncd breaks systemd's collection and journaling of the lsyncd output, as detailed in that bug.
Comment 1 "FeRD" (Frank Dana) 2016-10-12 01:01:37 UTC 
I just updated the lsyncd entry in Anitya (it was also still pointed at Google Code for updates), which explains why it just noticed 2.1.6 and created its own bug #1383857 to duplicate this manual one.
Comment 2 Jason Taylor 2016-11-09 00:43:26 UTC 
Thanks for the report. We will be looking at addressing the items you have listed.
Comment 3 "FeRD" (Frank Dana) 2017-01-04 13:44:47 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1383857 ***
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2017-01-14 14:32:18 UTC 
lsyncd-2.2.1-1.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-5cf41b89e0
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-01-14 15:10:14 UTC 
lsyncd-2.2.1-1.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-2d46983f2e
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-01-15 10:49:55 UTC 
lsyncd-2.2.1-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-2d46983f2e
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2017-01-15 11:19:43 UTC 
lsyncd-2.2.1-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-5cf41b89e0
Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 10:26:08 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.
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