A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions [...]
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages :
7c4f0d52ab1848941fef37b74455052b93c0419b sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.4-3.fc7.ppc64.rpm
82b8dda0dc3d6a1a4ca91f12d40f7de213e5f9ae sysstat-7.0.4-3.fc7.ppc64.rpm
6bb4cd4744dcc3c071d7ba221729e94b439a62fe sysstat-7.0.4-3.fc7.i386.rpm
48a369c53a3875c50cdb36e2ae6aa7637be3c180 sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.4-3.fc7.i386.rpm
142ffe1dcfdf2f7b5825f3921ca34cd16683c321 sysstat-7.0.4-3.fc7.x86_64.rpm
5ff09827ff74dd25729c0d7765fcfcc3e8661926 sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.4-3.fc7.x86_64.rpm
9c18ade609975023ba227aab8f9da8aac6621afe sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.4-3.fc7.ppc.rpm
d1663f8e72db761aadb66563ec2341c1ee92f6da sysstat-7.0.4-3.fc7.ppc.rpm
f49f823830c3811a3b3f530c83b31032fba727a0 sysstat-7.0.4-3.fc7.src.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/
e4046cdc09f68b934214c6bcf1bf0952536ada7e SRPMS/sysstat-7.0.0-5.fc6.src.rpm
e4046cdc09f68b934214c6bcf1bf0952536ada7e noarch/sysstat-7.0.0-5.fc6.src.rpm
db2d3f6d50a6ea0519a803337583bdad7efe4e40 ppc/debug/sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.0-5.fc6.ppc.rpm
6a8fade88fb3588340fd0ec7fbf26bf2615098a7 ppc/sysstat-7.0.0-5.fc6.ppc.rpm
0e6d0dcb78fa7a396f99e7136b9fb41356972099 x86_64/sysstat-7.0.0-5.fc6.x86_64.rpm
8b1a66fc0bc571f7c77045912410515facfad85a x86_64/debug/sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.0-5.fc6.x86_64.rpm
08e3fff5933b2051c4b7f4ae7b8eb5ac6cdaff4c i386/debug/sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.0-5.fc6.i386.rpm
a3025424a6e7e6b9fb4d0a506853d1022468bcda i386/sysstat-7.0.0-5.fc6.i386.rpm
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Julien L.
ChangeLog
2007-08-21 : Initial release
2007-08-27 : Updated Solution
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