Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in grsecurity, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
grsecurity RBAC User Transition Security Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29899
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29899/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
grsecurity 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3419/
DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in grsecurity, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security
restrictions.
The security issue is caused due to an error in the RBAC system when
enforcing the "user_transition_deny" and "user_transition_allow"
rules. This can be exploited to bypass the affected rules in calls to
"sys_setfsuid()" and "sys_setfsgid()".
The security issue is reported in versions prior to 2.1.11-2.6.24.5
(2008-04-21) and 2.1.11-2.4.36.2 (2008-04-21).
SOLUTION:
Update to 2.1.11-2.6.24.5 (2008-04-21) or 2.1.11-2.4.36.2
(2008-04-21).
http://www.grsecurity.org/download.php
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.grsecurity.org/news.php
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