Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 535
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 535

Fedora 27 Rootsh: Security Update on Logging Permissions Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey January 18, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Bolster safety measures via Fedora 27 rootsh upgrade rectifying log folder access rights for enhanced oversight.
Fix permissions on rootsh log directory to limit it to root.

Summary

Rootsh is a wrapper for shells which logs all echoed keystrokes and

terminal output to a file and/or to syslog. Its main purpose is the

auditing of users who need a shell with root privileges. They start

rootsh through the sudo mechanism.

Fix permissions on rootsh log directory to limit it to root.

[ 1 ] Bug #1526255 - rootsh log directory is world readable

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1526255

su -c 'dnf upgrade rootsh' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.5.3
Release: 17.fc27
Summary: Shell wrapper for auditing

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Related News

Your message here