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Slackware update for sysvinit
Secunia Advisory: SA8835
Release Date: 2003-05-23
Popularity: 7,285 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact:
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Slackware Linux 9.0

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Slackware has issued an updated package for sysvinit to fix a potential security issue.

The problem is that "/etc/rc.d/rc.M" calls the utility "quotacheck" with the following parameters: "-avugM". However, the "M" option is not correct (this should have been "m"), which results in the filesystem being remounted.

During this process all mount flags are reset, which can grant users more privileges than the system administrator desires.

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