Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for feh. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for feh
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45182
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2011-07-06
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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for feh. This fixes a security issue,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions with escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA43221
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update feh").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2011-8747:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062285.html
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