Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for logrotate. This fixes multiple security issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for logrotate
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44146
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2011-04-15
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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for logrotate. This fixes multiple
security issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of
Service), and potentially gain escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA42559
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update logrotate").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2011-3739:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057845.html
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