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Fedora 10 xorg-x11-xfs 1.0.5-3.1 Critical Race Condition Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey July 2, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest upgrade for Fedora 10 xorg-x11-xfs version 1.0.5-3.1 resolves a significant race condition vulnerability in the font server.

Summary

X.Org X11 xfs font server

ChangeLog:

* Mon Apr 13 2009 Adam Jackson 1.0.5-3.1

- xfs.init: Fix mkdir race (#492517)

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #492517 - CVE-2007-3103 init.d xfs script chown race condition vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492517

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update xorg-x11-xfs' 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/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora race condition font server

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Name: xorg-x11-xfs
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.0.5
Release: 3.1.fc10
URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/
Summary: X.Org X11 xfs font server

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora race condition font server

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