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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
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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

iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi could be made to overwrite files as the

administrator.

Software Description:

- open-iscsi: Open Source iSCSI implementation

Details:

Colin Watson discovered that iscsi_discovery in Open-iSCSI did not safely

create temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this to to overwrite

arbitrary files with root privileges.

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Topics Covered

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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Topics Covered

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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