Secunia Security Advisory - SUSE has issued an update for logrotate. This fixes some security issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
SUSE update for logrotate
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44704
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-05-26
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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for logrotate. This fixes some security
issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose
potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service),
and potentially gain escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA42559
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
openSUSE-SU-2011:0536-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8581105
SUSE-SU-2011:0539-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8581546
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