[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: tmux-1.4-4.fc15

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Wed Apr 20 03:25:15 UTC 2011


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5486
2011-04-17 02:01:48
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Name        : tmux
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.4
Release     : 4.fc15
URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux
Summary     : A terminal multiplexer
Description :
tmux is a "terminal multiplexer."  It enables a number of terminals (or
windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal.  tmux is
intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such
as GNU Screen.

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Update Information:

tmux didn't drop group privileges correctly in all cases.

This is fixed by using an updated patch originating from the debian tmux package.

Fixes RHBZ 694563, 656704, 697134, CVE-2011-1496
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #693824 - CVE-2011-1496 tmux does not drop group tmux privileges properly
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693824
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update tmux' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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