TITLE:
Fedora update for texinfo

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17211

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17211/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora Core 4
http://secunia.com/product/5251/
Fedora Core 3
http://secunia.com/product/4222/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for texinfo. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA16816

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

Fedora Core 3:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

22460b89314708f1a06144e1c47034f4  SRPMS/texinfo-4.8-2.2.src.rpm
8f24c8388f77e4aae686ffca6d6b638d  x86_64/texinfo-4.8-2.2.x86_64.rpm
5e7feb055712d27dc87911776a704115  x86_64/info-4.8-2.2.x86_64.rpm
1610a6c4c12aec49867e40a67681da7a 
x86_64/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-2.2.x86_64.rpm
2cdc8b87544ae6cdb76a77d5f8cbd31c  i386/texinfo-4.8-2.2.i386.rpm
bd1cb11c0d71734cf132277b5f170628  i386/info-4.8-2.2.i386.rpm
a4b176d9c9fd286babd8a063a65d00d4 
i386/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-2.2.i386.rpm

Fedora Core 4:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

10e51e319c3b894a5a0c6e046e9ac9bb  SRPMS/texinfo-4.8-4.1.src.rpm
759b73cdedc10bbfd5526992ca58ca4b  ppc/texinfo-4.8-4.1.ppc.rpm
224565f4e89ecd79a221775947470c78  ppc/info-4.8-4.1.ppc.rpm
716d455ba001af5b6f64b2469acf8428 
ppc/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-4.1.ppc.rpm
85df5755e653ea3576881f289a71c6b5  x86_64/texinfo-4.8-4.1.x86_64.rpm
1fad02bc5ef64c71f40c899ad24ba1b3  x86_64/info-4.8-4.1.x86_64.rpm
af423ce685205538879f7e3007b4c674 
x86_64/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-4.1.x86_64.rpm
cb219820133c9d9bca3e388540cd8afa  i386/texinfo-4.8-4.1.i386.rpm
fe645c668710b85f407c762ec6f56f37  i386/info-4.8-4.1.i386.rpm
14a5ac3918bf8312fa39482cb7bdf5b5 
i386/debug/texinfo-debuginfo-4.8-4.1.i386.rpm

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA16816:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16816/

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