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Fedora update for texinfo
Secunia Advisory: SA17211
Release Date: 2005-10-17
Popularity: 5,574 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-3011


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

For more information:
SA16816

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

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

22460b89314708f1a06144e1c47034f4 SRPMS/texinfo-4.8-2.2.src.rpm
8f24c8388f77e4aae686ffca6d6b638d x86_64/texinfo-4.8-2.2.x86_64.rpm
5e7feb055712d27dc87911776a704115 x86_64/info-4.8-2.2.x86_64.rpm
1610a6c4c12aec49867e40a67681da7a x86_64/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-2.2.x86_64.rpm
2cdc8b87544ae6cdb76a77d5f8cbd31c i386/texinfo-4.8-2.2.i386.rpm
bd1cb11c0d71734cf132277b5f170628 i386/info-4.8-2.2.i386.rpm
a4b176d9c9fd286babd8a063a65d00d4 i386/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-2.2.i386.rpm

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

10e51e319c3b894a5a0c6e046e9ac9bb SRPMS/texinfo-4.8-4.1.src.rpm
759b73cdedc10bbfd5526992ca58ca4b ppc/texinfo-4.8-4.1.ppc.rpm
224565f4e89ecd79a221775947470c78 ppc/info-4.8-4.1.ppc.rpm
716d455ba001af5b6f64b2469acf8428 ppc/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-4.1.ppc.rpm
85df5755e653ea3576881f289a71c6b5 x86_64/texinfo-4.8-4.1.x86_64.rpm
1fad02bc5ef64c71f40c899ad24ba1b3 x86_64/info-4.8-4.1.x86_64.rpm
af423ce685205538879f7e3007b4c674 x86_64/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-4.1.x86_64.rpm
cb219820133c9d9bca3e388540cd8afa i386/texinfo-4.8-4.1.i386.rpm
fe645c668710b85f407c762ec6f56f37 i386/info-4.8-4.1.i386.rpm
14a5ac3918bf8312fa39482cb7bdf5b5 i386/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-4.1.i386.rpm

Other References:
SA16816:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16816/


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