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A new update is available for Fedora Core - [SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: sysreport-1.3.13-2. Here the announcement:



Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-1072
2005-11-10
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : sysreport
Version : 1.3.13
Release : 2
Summary : Gathers system hardware and configuration information.
Description :
Sysreport is a utility that gathers information about a system's
hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for
diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sysreport is commonly used to help
support technicians and developers by providing a "snapshot" of a
system's current layout.

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Update Information:

It is possible for a local attacker to cause a race
condition and trick sysreport into writing its output to a
directory the attacker can read.

The new sysreport fixes this security issue
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* Tue Jul 12 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1.3.13-2
- security fix #162978, CAN-2005-2104
- don't include sensitive data #159502


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

8dabc05d02dd5de023b4ddc2a2a14efd SRPMS/sysreport-1.3.13-2.src.rpm
bd236adf3d6272adbc4167e29ce713f5 x86_64/sysreport-1.3.13-2.noarch.rpm
bd236adf3d6272adbc4167e29ce713f5 i386/sysreport-1.3.13-2.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.