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Red Hat update for setroubleshoot
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30339
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Release Date:
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2008-05-22
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Popularity:
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1,311 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
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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| OS: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-5495
CVE-2007-5496
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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.
Solution:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/
Original Advisory:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0061.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288221
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288271
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