Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for radvd. This fixes some security issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Fedora update for radvd
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46626
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2011-10-29
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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for radvd. This fixes some security
issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial
of Service).
For more information:
SA46200
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update radvd").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2011-14000:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068481.html
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