Description: Red Hat has issued updates for util-linux and mount. These fix a security issue, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
This also fixes a vulnerability caused due to a hardlink error in the script command for RHEL 2.1, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
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