|
Immunix update for fileutils
|
|
Secunia Advisory:
|
SA8815
|
|
|
Release Date:
|
2003-05-20
|
|
Popularity:
|
5,931 views
|
|
|
Critical:
|
Less critical
|
|
Impact:
|
Privilege escalation
|
|
Where:
|
Local system
|
|
Solution Status:
|
Vendor Patch
|
|
| OS: | Immunix 7.x
|
|
|
Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
|
Available in Secunia business solutions 
|
|
|
Subscribe:
|
Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities
|
|
| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
|
Description:
Updated packages have been released for fileutils to fix an older vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the recursive use of the utilities "rm" and "mv", which can be exploited to delete files and directories with the privileges of the user executing the command.
Successful exploitation requires that the malicious user has write access to part of the tree being moved or deleted.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
|
|
|
Track this Secunia Advisory
|
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.
Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.
|
|
|
About this Secunia Advisory
|
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.
Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
|
