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Security advisories for Friday

Security advisories for Friday
[Security] Posted Sep 5, 2008 17:48 UTC (Fri) by ris

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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