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Fedora update for xorg-x11-xfs Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27946  
Release Date: 2007-12-10

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

OS:Fedora Core 6


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Description:
Fedora has issued an update for xorg-x11-xfs. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA27040

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

3c9573b08ad82aaef14a71abd9ef3996e2609880 SRPMS/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm
3c9573b08ad82aaef14a71abd9ef3996e2609880 noarch/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm
ca2d5e5dc62448f881900c95ca26384cfca9431f ppc/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
cbce0c894e1f79b93b73bdeb3917a3689ca7693c ppc/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
42595b5d51cf33dc2452ac183ec7a25c447e34be ppc/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
fdbc381d393eff096e7da03b82b8f813dad6db35 x86_64/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
582b1962a8364825d2917a36b702d40c60e79096 x86_64/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
e9d78c971179afa414392f33a528c95e0a966dc2 x86_64/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
692cbc9aea5c9eab6e3152cbcadb58fe4dd8561d i386/debug/xorg-x11-xfs-debuginfo-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
79e8023adbb1352fc4612069982dd4678b9394bd i386/xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
68f86a1998d9a39e60e4f14b67ee55b183fbf65c i386/xorg-x11-xfs-utils-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm

Original Advisory:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor...-announce/2007-December/msg00301.html

Other References:
SA27040:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27040/



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