From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Nov 13 2008 - 18:40:05 CST

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TITLE:
rPath update for initscripts

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32710

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32710/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
rPath Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/10614/

DESCRIPTION:
rPath has issued an update for initscripts. This fixes a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the certain scripts improperly
removing all directories contained within the /var/lock and /var/run
directories at system start-up. This can be exploited to remove
arbitrary directories via symlink attacks.

SOLUTION:
Update to:
initscripts=conary.rpath.comrpl:1/8.12-8.22-1

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
rPSA-2008-0318:
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0318

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