Bug 125176

Summary: CAN-2004-0536 tripwire privilege escalation flaw
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: tripwireAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 2.1CC: laroche
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-06-03 13:18:34 UTC
See URL. If Tripwire is configured to send email reports, a local user
could create a carefully crafted file in such a way that they could
gain root privileges.

        Affects: 2.1AS(i386) 2.1ES 2.1WS

CVE applied for.

Public on full-disclosure list, Jun02

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-06-04 07:59:25 UTC
CAN-2004-0536

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2004-06-10 10:40:04 UTC
RHSA-2004:244 in progress

Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2004-06-14 15:45:06 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-244.html