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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-cd5ad916e4 critical: xawtv User Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Release note for xawtv version 3.107 on Fedora 32 addresses vulnerabilities related to information leakage and elevation of privileges.
Update to 3.107

Summary

Xawtv is a simple xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or

video4linux. Xawtv contains various command-line utilities for

grabbing images and .avi movies, for tuning in to TV stations, etc.

Xawtv also includes a grabber driver for vic.

Update to 3.107

* Sat May 16 2020 Mauro Carvalho Chehab - 3.107-1

- upgrade to version 3.107

[ 1 ] Bug #1882286 - CVE-2020-13696 xawtv: specially crafted input leads to information disclosure and user privilege escalation [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1882286

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-cd5ad916e4' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 3.107
Release: 1.fc32
Summary: TV applications for video4linux compliant devices

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