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TITLE:
Fedora update for initscripts

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32037

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32037/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 9
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18642/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for initscripts. This fixes a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the /etc/rc.sysinit script
improperly removing all directories contained within the /var/lock
and /var/run directories at system start-up. This can be exploited to
remove arbitrary directories via symlink attacks.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update
initscripts").

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Herbert Poetzl.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2008-7667:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01135.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458652

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