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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes GnuCash Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes GnuCash Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0773
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0007
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-02-28


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Fedora has released security updates to address a vulnerability has been identified in GnuCash. This issue could be exploited by malicious users to conduct symlink attacks. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0653

Affected Products

Fedora Core 6

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

77ec9e1e248b6550ec119908810ffee47be86cf2 SRPMS/gnucash-2.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm
77ec9e1e248b6550ec119908810ffee47be86cf2 noarch/gnucash-2.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm
a351bf97bdccd34710a84e78a4400274f0cea8d8 ppc/debug/gnucash-debuginfo-2.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
f57bda11cb16ec32efb4387037fb8f551dc37ad4 ppc/gnucash-2.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
c4317785a92c1d2cf53f220c57a9fe82e64e28e2 x86_64/debug/gnucash-debuginfo-2.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
8bcc378fb1760b3c16288613871c029fd91216df x86_64/gnucash-2.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
e9ad43bff3a7d4af8ec32c506ed08541cd613e1b i386/gnucash-2.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
943d9d94ccf0188988a1bda42c8d1e9229d83b06 i386/debug/gnucash-debuginfo-2.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0773
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-February/msg00157.html

ChangeLog

2007-02-28 : Initial release

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