Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in Roundup. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1672

Affected Products

Fedora 8
Fedora 9

Solution

Upgrade the affected package (roundup) :
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3201
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00452.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00478.html

ChangeLog

2008-11-20 : Initial release

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