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Scientific Linux: 2007-5191 Moderate: Util-Linux Privilege Risk

Calendar Nov 15, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Moderate: util-linux security update 
Date:         Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:11:04 -0600
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA for util-linux on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: util-linux security update
Issue date:	2007-11-15
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-5191

A flaw was discovered in the way that the mount and umount utilities
used the setuid and setgid functions, which could lead to privileges being
dropped improperly.  A local user could use this flaw to run mount helper
applications such as, mount.nfs, with additional privileges (CVE-2007-5191)

SL 3.0.x

   SRPMS:
util-linux-2.11y-31.24.src.rpm
   i386:
losetup-2.11y-31.24.i386.rpm
mount-2.11y-31.24.i386.rpm
util-linux-2.11y-31.24.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
losetup-2.11y-31.24.x86_64.rpm
mount-2.11y-31.24.x86_64.rpm
util-linux-2.11y-31.24.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

   SRPMS:
util-linux-2.12a-17.1.src.rpm
   i386:
util-linux-2.12a-17.1.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
util-linux-2.12a-17.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

   SRPMS:
util-linux-2.13-0.45.el5.1.src.rpm
   i386:
util-linux-2.13-0.45.el5.1.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
util-linux-2.13-0.45.el5.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson