Description

Red Hat has issued an update for coreutils. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

A configuration error of the pam_succeed_if.so module exists in /etc/pam.d/su. This can be exploited to change to an expired or locked account using the "su" command.

Successful exploitation requires that the password of the locked or expired account is known.

Solution
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0780.html

Deep Links
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