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TITLE:
Red Hat update for coolkey

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27591

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27591/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13651/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/product/13652/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13653/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for coolkey. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the /tmp/.pk11ipc1 directory being
created insecurely. This can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files
via symlink attacks.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Steve Grubb

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0631.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251774#c0

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