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Red Hat 4 RHSA-2006:0016-1 Moderate Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2006
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautious initscripts revision by Red Hat tackles vulnerability concerns and enhances performance.
An updated initscripts package that fixes a privilege escalation issue and several bugs is now available

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

108827 - RHEL4: Infiniband support 168321 - rc.sysinit call dynamicly linked multipath rather than multipath.static 171912 - Bogus messages in system log (/var/log/messages) 172804 - Automount of the emcpower device fails if fsck is enabled for the device in /etc/fstab. 174849 - CVE-2005-3629 root shell can be gained from service if ran through sudo


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:

SRPMS: 97f9a2e5fd448296d02daaa048781e1d initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.src.rpm

i386: 46d827b57bce985fe3aa3141ee6c44dc initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.i386.rpm

ia64: 62f0d0c4cfa20323ca3037f8c498bb61 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.ia64.rpm

ppc: 40229906eddd7dfe2151ed27ab56f587 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.ppc.rpm

s390: 3b8c0a755d1553c0e4380aa6e19cb414 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.s390.rpm

s390x: 80c5a6ceed345cd365c772356139f92c initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64: 848d807446d5c72aa9333eaa892ecd17 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:

SRPMS: 97f9a2e5fd448296d02daaa048781e1d initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.src.rpm

i386: 46d827b57bce985fe3aa3141ee6c44dc initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.i386.rpm

x86_64: 848d807446d5c72aa9333eaa892ecd17 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:

SRPMS: 97f9a2e5fd448296d02daaa048781e1d initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.src.rpm

i386: 46d827b57bce985fe3aa3141ee6c44dc initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.i386.rpm

ia64: 62f0d0c4cfa20323ca3037f8c498bb61 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.ia64.rpm

x86_64: 848d807446d5c72aa9333eaa892ecd17 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:

SRPMS: 97f9a2e5fd448296d02daaa048781e1d initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.src.rpm

i386: 46d827b57bce985fe3aa3141ee6c44dc initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.i386.rpm

ia64: 62f0d0c4cfa20323ca3037f8c498bb61 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.ia64.rpm

x86_64: 848d807446d5c72aa9333eaa892ecd17 initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package

Summary

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3629

Package List


Advisory ID: RHSA-2006:0016-01
Issue date: 2006-03-07
Updated on: 2006-03-07
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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