Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for bltk. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for bltk
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38313
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38313/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for bltk. This fixes a security issue,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the utility
/usr/lib/bltk/bin/bltk_sudo allowing to invoke arbitrary commands
with root privileges without authentication.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update bltk").
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Matthew Garrett.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2010-1219:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034477.html
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