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Red Hat Directory Server Insecure File Permissions
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29482
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Release Date:
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2008-03-25
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Red Hat Directory Server 8.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0889 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Red Hat Directory Server, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to insecure file permissions being set for the "redhat-idm-console" script. This can be exploited by malicious, local users to modify the script and execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is reported in version 8.0 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Solution:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Doncho N. Gunchev.
Original Advisory:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0191.html
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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. Red Hat Directory Server Regular Expression Handler Buffer Overflow
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2. Red Hat update for redhat-ds-admin
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