Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Redhat, which could be exploited by attackers to write malicious files to arbitrary directories. This issue is caused by an error in GCC. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2866

Affected Products

Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
https://rhn.redhat.com/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2133
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0473.html

ChangeLog

2007-06-12 : Initial release

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