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Fedora Security Update Fixes Blam Untrusted Search Path Weakness


Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Blam Untrusted Search Path Weakness
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-4023
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4790
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-28

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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by local attackers to potentially obtain elevated privileges [...]

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

7bc7f1f01d672abaa13f4a2e4c02a8c01a1f1c2e blam-1.8.3-9.fc7.i386.rpm
0c9aa73347873be18fca0e9d0accd8a31634fa34 blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-9.fc7.i386.rpm
5a05537c6b4aabccd52ec6c308bee3015acb9918 blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-9.fc7.x86_64.rpm
5cc7d651d09410b957605518285581434fe6f626 blam-1.8.3-9.fc7.x86_64.rpm
1c89824bf2ccc11c11406acb32cb3c3d126eaeb2 blam-1.8.3-9.fc7.ppc.rpm
b10961d8e75d2716a1c145667ff753e7717df80f blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-9.fc7.ppc.rpm
4413684e045f0c2fa88816ce4fce6064e11bf91a blam-1.8.3-9.fc7.src.rpm

8c2691d5d608dfe4ebe49d19c5648e98f796e799 blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-11.fc8.i386.rpm
2aa1c2490235906853b3b33dbc8b307cbf7c5a7e blam-1.8.3-11.fc8.i386.rpm
affe4814232cf9abaf7b9222cf1eb6a4fa4a0f3c blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-11.fc8.x86_64.rpm
ed5e6144b7719e3b2d5f1d70f26bdbe4b298d490 blam-1.8.3-11.fc8.x86_64.rpm
d0967a8905fb3aaa46f3ba302bec787eae2446f8 blam-1.8.3-11.fc8.ppc.rpm
d52414a5eabf5d02af9109f3191d215ca57cfb25 blam-debuginfo-1.8.3-11.fc8.ppc.rpm
17ceb85f572cec39fe2df132d4c92bb83de8a951 blam-1.8.3-11.fc8.src.rpm

ChangeLog

2007-11-28 : Initial release

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