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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes X.Org XFS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes X.Org XFS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2009-1754
CVE ID : CVE-2007-3103
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2009-07-02

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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in X.Org xfs. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2515

Affected Products

Fedora 10
Fedora 9

Solution

Upgrade the affected package (xorg-x11-xfs) :
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1754
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00095.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00096.html

ChangeLog

2009-07-02 : Initial release

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