I would rather have an update for FC2 [was: Re: Will FC3 wait for 2.6.9 ?]

[Adam Mercer]

Chris Adams wrote:

> IIRC there was a recent BUGTRAQ notice that there were security holes
> found in cdrecord when it was setuid root.  Have these been fixed in the
> Fedora version?

Fixed earlier this month.

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-298
2004-09-09
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Product     : Fedora Core 2
Name        : cdrtools
Version     : 2.01
Release     : 0.a27.4.FC2.3
Summary     : A collection of CD/DVD utilities.
Description :
cdrtools is a collection of CD/DVD utilities.

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Update Information:


Anyone who has manually suid /usr/bin/cdrecord should update to this 
version.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0806

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Cheers

Adam