Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for coccinelle. 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 coccinelle
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35459
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35459/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for coccinelle. This fixes a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions with escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA35012
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update
coccinelle").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2009-5368:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00731.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA35012:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35012/
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