TITLE:
util-vserver Unknown Capabilities Handling Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19333

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19333/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
util-vserver 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/8846/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in util-vserver, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious programs to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to the default policy of
util-vserver being set to trust all unknown capabilities instead of
considering them as insecure. This can potentially be exploited by
bypass certain security restrictions of a vserver.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.30.208 or later.
http://linux-vserver.org/

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Linux VServer:
http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/util-vserver/lib/getinsecurebcaps.c?rev=1.2&root=util-vserver&view=log

Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329090

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