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TITLE:
Red Hat Directory Server Insecure Directory Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29350

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29350/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Red Hat Directory Server 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/7016/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Red Hat Directory Server, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to insecure permissions being set for
the "/opt/redhat-ds/java/jars" directory. This can be exploited by a
malicious, local user to replace ".jar" archives and execute
arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 7.1 prior to Service Pack 4.

SOLUTION:
The vendor has fixed the vulnerability in Red Hat Directory Server
7.1 Service Pack 4, which is available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0173.html

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