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Secunia Security Advisory 32832

Secunia Security Advisory 32832
Posted Nov 25, 2008
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - SUSE has issued an update for yast2-backup. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

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Secunia Security Advisory 32832

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TITLE:
SUSE update for yast2-backup

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32832

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32832/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
openSUSE 10.2
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13375/
openSUSE 10.3
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/16124/
openSUSE 11.0
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19180/
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/1171/
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/4118/
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12192/

SOFTWARE:
Novell Open Enterprise Server 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/4664/

DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for yast2-backup. This fixes a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to yast2-backup not properly
sanitising filenames, which can be exploited to inject arbitrary
shell commands via specially crafted filenames.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

Platform Independent:

openSUSE 11.0:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/11.0/rpm/noarch/yast2-backup-2.16.6-0.1.noarch.rpm

openSUSE 10.3:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/noarch/yast2-backup-2.15.7-0.1.noarch.rpm

openSUSE 10.2:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/noarch/yast2-backup-2.14.2-0.1.noarch.rpm

Sources:

openSUSE 11.0:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/11.0/rpm/src/yast2-backup-2.16.6-0.1.src.rpm

openSUSE 10.3:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/yast2-backup-2.15.7-0.1.src.rpm

openSUSE 10.2:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/src/yast2-backup-2.14.2-0.1.src.rpm

Open Enterprise Server

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=9b5088ff155f0ef71eeac627566a4ebe

Novell Linux POS 9

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=9b5088ff155f0ef71eeac627566a4ebe

Novell Linux Desktop 9

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=9b5088ff155f0ef71eeac627566a4ebe

SUSE SLES 9

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=9b5088ff155f0ef71eeac627566a4ebe

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=83466dc61c7874dbb83c7035c8f3fed2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=873b8cb0771c68aded76518d4b12c766

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=873b8cb0771c68aded76518d4b12c766

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=388de739f171e7e9754618a1fee7894e

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2

http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&keywords=388de739f171e7e9754618a1fee7894e

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SUSE-SA:2008:054
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00003.html

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