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Fedora Legacy: FLSA-1546 Moderate: Utempter Symlink Risk Update

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2004
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The recent patch from Fedora Legacy strengthens utempter by addressing a critical symlink vulnerability that affects various terminal utilities. Urgent update recommended!
An updated utempter package that fixes a potential symlink vulnerability is now available.

Summary

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security advisory moderate update Fedora security fix symlink utempter

Change Log

References

CVE -CVE-2004-0233






9. Contact:

The Fedora Legacy security contact is <secnotice@fedoralegacy.org>. More project details at http://www.fedoralegacy.org

- -- Jesse Keating RHCE ( ) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org)



Update Instructions

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security advisory moderate update Fedora security fix symlink utempter

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