Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for geda-gnetlist. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for geda-gnetlist
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32875
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32875/
CRITICAL:
Not 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 geda-gnetlist. This fixes a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions with escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA32806
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update
geda-gnetlist").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2008-9694:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00431.html
FEDORA-2008-9730:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00475.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA32806:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32806/
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