From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Aug 10 2005 - 04:19:59 CDT

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TITLE:
Red Hat update for sysreport

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16381

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16381/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/48/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
http://secunia.com/product/2534/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4669/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/1306/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
http://secunia.com/product/2535/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
http://secunia.com/product/4668/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/1044/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
http://secunia.com/product/2536/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4670/
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium
http://secunia.com/product/1326/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for sysreport. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated
privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the temporary directory
"/tmp/sysreport.$$" being created insecurely by sysreport. This can
be exploited via symlink attacks to cause the output files to be
written to arbitrary directories with the privileges of the user
running the affected script.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-598.html

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