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Red Hat update for setroubleshoot
Secunia Advisory: SA30339
Release Date: 2008-05-22
Popularity: 2,126 views

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

OS:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for setroubleshoot. This fixes two security issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to conduct script insertion attacks and to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

1) The problem is that the "sealert" script uses temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running "sealert".

2) Input passed via process and file names is not properly sanitised before being saved when an AVC denial event takes place. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious logs are viewed.

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