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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS USN-1235-1 Critical: Open-iSCSI File Overwrite Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2011
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The recent Open-iSCSI flaw discovered in Ubuntu poses a serious risk, enabling file overwrites with administrative privileges. Immediate updates are essential to safeguard system integrity.
iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi could be made to overwrite files as the administrator.

Summary

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security advisory critical file overwrite Ubuntu local exploit open-iscsi October 2011

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: open-iscsi 2.0.865-1ubuntu3.5 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2009-1297

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October 20, 2011

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security advisory critical file overwrite Ubuntu local exploit open-iscsi October 2011

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-iscsi/2.0.865-1ubuntu3.5

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