TITLE:
Red Hat update for udev

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18193

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18193/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4669/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
http://secunia.com/product/4668/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4670/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for udev. This fixes a vulnerability,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to insecure permissions being set on
"/dev/input" by udev. This may be exploited by  malicious users to
gain access to certain information (e.g. keyboard input) by reading
from "/dev/input/event0".

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Richard Cunningham

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175818
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-864.html

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