Scientific Linux 6: SLSA-2013:1674-2 Moderate Dracut Info Disclosure Risk

Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:04:25 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: dracut on SL6.x (noarch)
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Synopsis: Moderate: dracut security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:1674-2
Issue Date: 2013-11-21
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-4453
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It was discovered that dracut created initramfs images as world readable.
A local user could possibly use this flaw to obtain sensitive information
from these files, such as iSCSI authentication passwords, encrypted root
file system crypttab passwords, or other information. (CVE-2012-4453)
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SL6
 noarch
 dracut-004-336.el6.noarch.rpm
 dracut-fips-004-336.el6.noarch.rpm
 dracut-kernel-004-336.el6.noarch.rpm
 dracut-network-004-336.el6.noarch.rpm
 dracut-caps-004-336.el6.noarch.rpm
 dracut-fips-aesni-004-336.el6.noarch.rpm
 dracut-generic-004-336.el6.noarch.rpm
 dracut-tools-004-336.el6.noarch.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team