Security Advisory SA19162 - Red Hat update for initscripts

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Secunia Advisory SA19162

Red Hat update for initscripts

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SA19162

Release Date

2006-03-08

Last Update

2006-03-16

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2005-3629 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Red Hat has issued an update for initscripts. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of certain environment variables when the "/sbin/service" command is run. This can be exploited by local users with permissions to execute /sbin/service via sudo to execute arbitrary commands as the "root" user.

Note: Several bugs have also been fixed.

Solution
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
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Original Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0016.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0015.html

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Red Hat update for initscripts

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