Fedora update for cvs
Secunia Advisory: SA16557
Release Date: 2005-08-24
Popularity: 5,117 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4

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Description:
Fedora has issued an update for cvs. This fixes a security issue, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA16553

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

Fedora Core 3:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

69a876ca0452cb1c73c3be35f4eb19a6 SRPMS/cvs-1.11.17-7.FC3.src.rpm
db5de9c27d8901ebb6bdbae1a150c196 x86_64/cvs-1.11.17-7.FC3.x86_64.rpm
cafb738040a63eaf2eca539c10e4259a x86_64/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.17-7.FC3.x86_64.rpm
3f062459045d7679ed27f8825ebcb8ef i386/cvs-1.11.17-7.FC3.i386.rpm
74494c45dbb4d46c4f234c36d59ed3a9 i386/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.17-7.FC3.i386.rpm

Fedora Core 4:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

4bf76c04c60a124330489518b865530d SRPMS/cvs-1.11.19-9.src.rpm
cf08814339be854831348d6ee73254df ppc/cvs-1.11.19-9.ppc.rpm
f673c301ff24c76b0ce0bd9c179c49f9 ppc/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.19-9.ppc.rpm
990ce8931ca7359cebe6de4b63218a21 x86_64/cvs-1.11.19-9.x86_64.rpm
8e7ccdb5a3e6df223679fb861f9c107b x86_64/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.19-9.x86_64.rpm
29a8086ccac579c5fc525ffc8b35adc6 i386/cvs-1.11.19-9.i386.rpm
c261db337d4e26beac46a06bed72907a i386/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.19-9.i386.rpm

Provided and/or discovered by:
Josh Bressers

Other References:
SA16553
http://secunia.com/advisories/16553/


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