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SciLinux: 2011-03-29 Important Conga Update on SL5 for Privilege Escalation

Calendar Mar 29, 2011 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory privilege escalation remote access important administrative access conga SL5
Important: conga security update 
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:25:12 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: conga on SL5.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific 
MIME-Version: 1.0

This ERRATA for SL 5.x i386/x86_64 is now available from:

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Synopsis: Important: conga security update
Issue date: 2011-03-29
CVE Names: CVE-2011-0720

A privilege escalation flaw was found in luci, the Conga web-based
administration application. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw
to obtain administrative access, allowing them to read, create, or modify
the content of the luci application. (CVE-2011-0720)
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SL 5.x

SRPMS:

 	conga-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.src.rpm

i386:

 	luci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.i386.rpm
 	ricci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.i386.rpm

x86_64:

 	luci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm
 	ricci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson