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Secunia Advisory SA15675

Red Hat update for sysreport
Secunia Advisory SA15675
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Release Date 2005-06-14
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 for Itanium
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-1760 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Red Hat has issued an update for sysreport. This fixes a security issue, which may disclose sensitive information to malicious people.

The problem is that the sysreport utility includes the contents of the "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date" configuration file, which may contain a proxy password in plain text, when collecting information for debugging and diagnostic purposes.


Solution
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
Further details available in Customer Area

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Original Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-502.html

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