Secunia Security Advisory - Debian has issued an update for rssh. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
Debian update for rssh
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51307
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-11-28
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DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for rssh. This fixes two vulnerabilities,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain
security restrictions.
For more information:
SA51343
1) The vulnerability is caused due the application not validating
command line options and can be exploited to bypass the allowed
commands filter checks resulting in reduced shell restrictions via
the "-e" option.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the apt-get package manager.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) James Clawson in a bug report.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DSA-2578-1:
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2578
James Clawson:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877279
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