Updated conga packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More...]. ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: conga security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2011:0394-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0394.html Issue date: 2011-03-28 CVE Names: CVE-2011-0720 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated conga packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: RHEL Clustering (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, x86_64 3. Description: The conga packages provide a web-based administration tool for remote cluster and storage management. 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) Users of Conga are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the updated packages, luci must be restarted ("service luci restart") for the update to take effect. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259 5. Bugs fixed(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 676961 - CVE-2011-0720 plone: unauthorized remote administrative access 6. Package List: RHEL Clustering (v. 5 server): Source: i386: conga-debuginfo-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.i386.rpm luci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.i386.rpm ricci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.i386.rpm ia64: conga-debuginfo-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.ia64.rpm luci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.ia64.rpm ricci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.ia64.rpm ppc: conga-debuginfo-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.ppc.rpm luci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.ppc.rpm ricci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.ppc.rpm x86_64: conga-debuginfo-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm luci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm ricci-0.12.2-24.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0720 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact Copyright 2011 Red Hat, Inc. . Critical security patch for conga addressing admin access vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Immediate upgrade recommended.. Conga Update, Remote Management Security, Red Hat Advisory, Linux Cluster Security. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team
A buffer overflow and race condition vulnerabilities have been fixed. These vulnerabilities may lead to remote root compromise.. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-11 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : samba SUMMARY : buffer overrun DATE : 2003-03-17 09:22 UTC EXPLOIT : remote VERSIONS AFFECTED : =2.2.8 CVE : CAN-2003-0085 CAN-2003-0086 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - From advisory: "The SuSE security audit team, in particular Sebastian Krahmer , has found a flaw in the Samba main smbd code which could allow an external attacker to remotely and anonymously gain Super User (root) privileges on a server running a Samba server." "A buffer overrun condition exists in the SMB/CIFS packet fragment re-assembly code in smbd which would allow an attacker to cause smbd to overwrite arbitrary areas of memory in its own process address space. This could allow a skilled attacker to inject binary specific exploit code into smbd." Read the full advisory at: SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-fs/samba upgrade to samba-2.2.8 as follows: emerge sync emerge samba emerge clean - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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