Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been idenitified in Fedora, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by errors in xorg-x11-xfs. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3337

Affected Products

Fedora 7

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

77038b706fcc1007fe3e44042ce30014131b7e43 xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
e6d66cf9582ccc12d1e7752d55d450ca5c41082d xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
7f8234214a8694ab22dc61ec919b1df973f83a20 xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
03ec7099f027501172ab4301241ce9c837c59862 xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc7.i386.rpm
8d6eb5f64e54ede760c742c5514c61a10ea03f67 xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc7.i386.rpm
d4f690e61ee763c06e963fb784796620931e0a40 xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc7.i386.rpm
5ce5681a5e32f69fb1e77c9f3d985f30c791fa85 xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
f8df90b467fc967d4b9d43baa8720b9abbcc2173 xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
803b53e44c20a8423c64ab538b5157ef2e394876 xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
bf33f4bf7048bd1e74f11f3a2cc925791da3d8bf xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
ee75fc38225d4df5a836f0f9381b6a87497f8757 xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
50dc6219b1be7a82c8459cf99a7938d8bc00c642 xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
c0e79d4150616e00c98d7e2fa3af642f69374a49 xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc7.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4162
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00352.html

ChangeLog

2007-12-11 : Initial release

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