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Fedora Security Update Fixes xorg-x11-xfs Multiple Local Vulnerabilities


Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes xorg-x11-xfs Multiple Local Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-4134
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4568 - CVE-2007-4990
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-12-10

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been idenitified in Fedora, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code [...]

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

3c9573b08ad82aaef14a71abd9ef3996e2609880 SRPMS/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm
3c9573b08ad82aaef14a71abd9ef3996e2609880 noarch/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm
ca2d5e5dc62448f881900c95ca26384cfca9431f ppc/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
cbce0c894e1f79b93b73bdeb3917a3689ca7693c ppc/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
42595b5d51cf33dc2452ac183ec7a25c447e34be ppc/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
fdbc381d393eff096e7da03b82b8f813dad6db35 x86_64/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
582b1962a8364825d2917a36b702d40c60e79096 x86_64/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
e9d78c971179afa414392f33a528c95e0a966dc2 x86_64/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
692cbc9aea5c9eab6e3152cbcadb58fe4dd8561d i386/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
79e8023adbb1352fc4612069982dd4678b9394bd i386/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
68f86a1998d9a39e60e4f14b67ee55b183fbf65c i386/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm

ChangeLog

2007-12-10 : Initial release

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