Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for fail2ban. This fixes some weaknesses, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for fail2ban
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44361
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2011-04-27
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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for fail2ban. This fixes some weaknesses,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions with escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA44253
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update fail2ban").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2011-5151:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058872.html
FEDORA-2011-5153:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058886.html
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