Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for argyllcms. This fixed a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for argyllcms
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38828
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for argyllcms. This fixed a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass
certain security restrictions.
The security issue is caused due to insecure access rules being set
on certain tty devices. This can be exploited to access otherwise
restricted content.
The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.0.4-5.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update
argyllcms").
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by David Zeuthen.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2010-3587:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036443.html
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