Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for blender. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for blender
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32701
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32701/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/16769/
Fedora 9
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18642/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for blender. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.
For more information:
SA32680
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update blender").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2008-9411:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00303.html
FEDORA-2008-9447:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00243.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA32680:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32680/
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