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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Audacity Insecure Temporary File

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Audacity Insecure Temporary File
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1516
CVE ID : CVE-2007-6061
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-14

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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions and cause a denial of service [...]

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/

ChangeLog

2008-05-14 : Initial release

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