[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: tmux-1.4-3.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5167
2011-04-10 20:59:42
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Name        : tmux
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 1.4
Release     : 3.fc14
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, CVE-2011-1496
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Apr 10 2011 Sven Lankes <sven at lank.es> 1.4-3
- Fix CVE-2011-1496
- Fixes rhbz #693824
* Wed Feb  9 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Dec 28 2010 Filipe Rosset <rosset.filipe at gmail.com> 1.4-1
- New upstream release
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #694563 - CVE-2011-1496 tmux does not drop group tmux privileges properly [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694563
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