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A privilege escalation flaw in udev

A privilege escalation flaw in udev

Posted Apr 23, 2009 13:25 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: A privilege escalation flaw in udev by janfrode
Parent article: A privilege escalation flaw in udev

I have seen that sentence in every single security advisory they issue, so it is probably just a boilerplate sentence (of course, one can expect there are reasons for them adding that boilerplate).


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A privilege escalation flaw in udev

Posted Apr 23, 2009 16:07 UTC (Thu) by janfrode (subscriber, #244) [Link]

And just to be on the paranoid safe side I asked Red Hat support, and they confirmed it should be safe to upgrade on any RHEL5 update levels.

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