Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in Kernel. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0151

Affected Products

Fedora 7

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0304
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00968.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00061.html

ChangeLog

2008-01-29 : Initial release
2008-02-04 : Updated References

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