Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Red Hat Directory Server, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Red Hat Directory Server Insecure File Permissions
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29482
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29482/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Red Hat Directory Server 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/18012/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Red Hat Directory Server, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to insecure file permissions being
set for the "redhat-idm-console" script. This can be exploited by
malicious, local users to modify the script and execute arbitrary
code with escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is reported in version 8.0 running on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Doncho N. Gunchev.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0191.html
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