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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-4501 High: Gnome Shell Vulnerability Disclosure

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Calendar Grey March 25, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Fedora 10 patch fixes a vulnerability that permitted entry to a secured desktop through shortcuts associated with the expo plugin.
This update fixes a security issue in the expo plugin which allows local users with physical access to drag the screen saver aside and access the locked desktop by using Expo mou...

Summary

The Compiz Fusion Project brings 3D desktop visual effects that improve

usability of the X Window System and provide increased productivity

though plugins and themes contributed by the community giving a

rich desktop experience

This update fixes a security issue in the expo plugin which allows local users

with physical access to drag the screen saver aside and access the locked

desktop by using Expo mouse shortcuts.

* Tue Mar 24 2009 Adel Gadllah 0.7.8-4

- Add fix for RH #491918, CVE-2008-6514

* Sat Mar 14 2009 Adel Gadllah 0.7.8-3

- Backport upstream fix for RH #474741

* Thu Dec 11 2008 Adel Gadllah 0.7.8-2

- Add winrules patch back, not upstream yet

* Thu Dec 4 2008 Adel Gadllah 0.7.8-1

- Update to 0.7.8

- Drop patches (upstream now)

[ 1 ] Bug #491918 - CVE-2008-6514 compiz-fusion: Possible locked desktop access by using Expo plugin mouse shortcuts

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491918

su -c 'yum update compiz-fusion' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.7.8
Release: 4.fc10
Summary: Collection of Compiz Fusion plugins for Compiz

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