Description: Red Hat has acknowledged a security issue in the lspp-eal4-config-ibm and capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to an error within the "capp-lspp-config" script, resulting in the "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" file being world-writeable. This can be exploited to gain escalated privileges.
NOTE: This only affects systems deployed using the vulnerable packages as system kickstart script.
For systems deployed with the old packages, apply correct file permissions by performing the following action as root user:
chmod 0644 /etc/pam.d/system-auth
Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor.
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