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Fedora 22: 2015-4690 Critical: GLPI Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2015
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The new patch for Fedora 22's glpi resolves a severe privilege escalation vulnerability, significantly boosting system defense.
* Fix privilege escalation via user creation with a crafted POST request

Summary

GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration-

Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your

company (computer, software, printers...). It has enhanced functions to make

the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system with

mail-notification and methods to build a database with basic information

about your network-topology.

Update Information:

* Fix privilege escalation via user creation with a crafted POST request

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora privilege escalation system update GLPI

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1194196 - glpi: privilege escalation via user creation with a crafted POST request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194196

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update glpi' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: glpi
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.85.2
Release: 2.fc22
URL: https://www.glpi-project.org/en/
Summary: Free IT asset management software

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora privilege escalation system update GLPI

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