Description: Red Hat has issued an update for fam. This fixes an old security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of certain system information.
The problem is caused due to an error in the group permission handling and makes it possible to discover the names of files only viewable by users in the "root" group.
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