Security advisories for Friday [LWN.net]

Here are the first Fedora updates, freshly signed: samba (F9, wrong permissions of group_mapping.ldb), xastir (F8: insecure temporary files), bitlbee (F9: account hijack), wordpress (F9: privilege escalation).

Gentoo has updated yelp (format string vulnerability), dnsmasq (DNS cache poisoning), realplayer (buffer overflow), mysql (privilege escalation).

Mandriva has updated python (multiple vulnerabilities).

rPath has updated libtiff (arbitrary code execution).

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Security advisories for Friday

Posted Sep 5, 2008 21:22 UTC (Fri) by nirik (subscriber, #71) [Link]

Note that the fedora updates are not yet really available.
Some announcements when out in testing the push scripts with the new keys/repositories.

Hopefully they will be available soon...