---------------------------------------------------------------------- To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the advisories to German. The improvements will help our customers to get a better understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated, our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios. This includes: * Reason for rating * Extended description * Extended solution * Exploit code or links to exploit code * Deep links Read the full description: http://corporate.secunia.com/products/48/?r=l Contact Secunia Sales for more information: http://corporate.secunia.com/how_to_buy/15/?r=l ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Red Hat update for texinfo SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA22725 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/22725/ CRITICAL: Moderately critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation, System access WHERE: >From remote OPERATING SYSTEM: RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 http://secunia.com/product/48/ RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3 http://secunia.com/product/2534/ RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4 http://secunia.com/product/4669/ RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 http://secunia.com/product/1306/ RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3 http://secunia.com/product/2535/ RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4 http://secunia.com/product/4668/ RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 http://secunia.com/product/1044/ RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3 http://secunia.com/product/2536/ RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4 http://secunia.com/product/4670/ RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium http://secunia.com/product/1326/ DESCRIPTION: Red Hat has issued an update for texinfo. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges, and by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system. For more information: SA16816 SOLUTION: Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network. http://rhn.redhat.com ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html OTHER REFERENCES: SA16816: http://secunia.com/advisories/16816/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------