CVE-2007-3912

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Debian Linux Security Advisory 1527-1

Posted Mar 24, 2008

Authored by Debian | Site debian.org

Debian Security Advisory 1527-1 - Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart tool in the debian-goodies suite of utilities, allowed local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the name of the executable file for a running process.

tags | advisory, shell, local

systems | linux, debian

advisories | CVE-2007-3912

SHA-256 | 51baf9a596ae64fd0a619f797a3fea9891741588731893ce0b5a7606be68ac92

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Ubuntu Security Notice 526-1

Posted Oct 5, 2007

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 526-1 - Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart program included in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the user running checkrestart.

tags | advisory, shell, local

systems | linux, debian, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2007-3912

SHA-256 | 0f79713d47922e9699f6f7748e8f256eea58e9743bebd57b333c780201b14f5f

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