Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for xorg-x11-xfs. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for xorg-x11-xfs
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27946
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27946/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora Core 6
http://secunia.com/product/12487/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for xorg-x11-xfs. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA27040
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
3c9573b08ad82aaef14a71abd9ef3996e2609880
SRPMS/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm
3c9573b08ad82aaef14a71abd9ef3996e2609880
noarch/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm
ca2d5e5dc62448f881900c95ca26384cfca9431f
ppc/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
cbce0c894e1f79b93b73bdeb3917a3689ca7693c
ppc/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
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ppc/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
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x86_64/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
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x86_64/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
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x86_64/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
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i386/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
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i386/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
68f86a1998d9a39e60e4f14b67ee55b183fbf65c
i386/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00301.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27040:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27040/
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