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Red Hat update for sysreport
Secunia Advisory: SA16381
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Release Date: 2005-08-10
Popularity: 7,653 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium
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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2104
Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for sysreport. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the temporary directory "/tmp/sysreport.$$" being created insecurely by sysreport. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to cause the output files to be written to arbitrary directories with the privileges of the user running the affected script.

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

Original Advisory:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-598.html

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