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Scientific Linux SL4.x Security Update: libgtop2 Moderate Risk

Calendar Aug 08, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Moderate: libgtop2 security update 
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:58:00 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for libgtop2 on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: libgtop2 security update
Issue date:	2007-08-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-0235

A flaw was found in the way libgtop2 handled long filenames mapped
into the address space of a process. An attacker could execute arbitrary
code on behalf of the user running gnome-system-monitor by executing a
process and mapping a file with a specially crafted name into the
processes' address space. (CVE-2007-0235)

This update also fixes the following bug:

* when a version of libgtop2 compiled to run on a 32-bit architecture was
used to inspect a process running in 64-bit mode, it failed to report
certain information regarding address space mapping correctly.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
	libgtop2-2.8.0-1.0.2.src.rpm
 i386:
	libgtop2-2.8.0-1.0.2.i386.rpm
	libgtop2-devel-2.8.0-1.0.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	libgtop2-2.8.0-1.0.2.i386.rpm
	libgtop2-2.8.0-1.0.2.x86_64.rpm
	libgtop2-devel-2.8.0-1.0.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson