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TITLE:
Red Hat update for xorg-x11

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26056

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26056/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13653/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/product/13652/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4669/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
http://secunia.com/product/4668/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4670/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for xorg-x11 and xorg-x11-xfs. This
fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local
users to perform actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition within the
handling of temporary files when the xfs font server startup script
is executed. This can be exploited to change the permissions of
arbitrary files.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Bugzilla bug report with reference to iDefense.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0520.html

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242903

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