Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in Crowbar, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Crowbar Ohai Plugin Insecure Temporary Files Security Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50442
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-08-28
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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Crowbar, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the Ohai plugin using temporary
files in an insecure manner, which can be exploited to execute
arbitrary commands with root privileges.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the Git repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Thomas Biege, SUSE
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/302
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