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TITLE:
Fedora update for kvm

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33350

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33350/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 9
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18642/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for kvm. This fixes a security issue,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain
security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or by
malicious users to cause a DoS.

A vulnerability is caused due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2007-1320.

For more information:
SA29129
SA33303

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update kvm").

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2008-11705:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01223.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29129:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29129/

SA33303:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33303/

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