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Fedora update for tomboy
Secunia Advisory: SA27621
Release Date: 2007-11-12
Popularity: 3,360 views

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

OS:Fedora 7

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-4790


Description:
Fedora has issued an update for tomboy. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA26480

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

721ad30740b7669657baa94234f887bc41414b73 tomboy-0.6.1-2.fc7.i386.rpm
0216e31427454b2e07d1ec81ef55b148a899eb7e tomboy-debuginfo-0.6.1-2.fc7.i386.rpm
6732454fba9836cab0b44fb82b1ee4aa8e414916 tomboy-0.6.1-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
4f0b7427798adb47a54a34f4b9e96a3ef3ca575e tomboy-debuginfo-0.6.1-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
3b6fe061bf9542ae991df8eb1b92f416f2a05962 tomboy-debuginfo-0.6.1-2.fc7.ppc.rpm
499d72c90787d6583da815c1c00a7da72b94f005 tomboy-0.6.1-2.fc7.ppc.rpm
440e92c0bccceda2e77fdcd8cc90a0a1228ca2c7 tomboy-0.6.1-2.fc7.src.rpm

Original Advisory:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor...-announce/2007-November/msg00206.html

Other References:
SA26480:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26480/


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