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Secunia Advisory SA42318

Fedora update for systemtap
Secunia Advisory SA42318
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Release Date 2010-11-19
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
DoS
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Fedora 12
Fedora 13
Fedora 14

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2010-4170 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-4171 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Fedora has issued an update for systemtap. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA42256


Solution
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update systemtap").
Original Advisory
FEDORA-2010-17865:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemtap-1.3-3.fc14

FEDORA-2010-17868:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemtap-1.3-3.fc12

FEDORA-2010-17873:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemtap-1.3-3.fc13

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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