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TITLE:
Red Hat update for coreutils

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31225

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31225/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4669/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
http://secunia.com/product/4668/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4670/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for coreutils. This fixes a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass
certain security restrictions.

A configuration error of the pam_succeed_if.so module exists in
/etc/pam.d/su. This can be exploited to change to an expired or
locked account using the "su" command.

Successful exploitation requires that the password of the locked or
expired account is known.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0780.html

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