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TITLE:
Fedora update for widelands

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44470

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-05-07

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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for widelands. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application not properly
verifying saved game or map file names provided by the server, which
can be exploited overwrite arbitrary files via directory traversal
attacks by tricking a user into connecting to a malicious game
server.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update widelands").

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2011-6110:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059611.html

FEDORA-2011-6124:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059632.html

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