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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3: RHSA-2006:0015-01 Moderate Initscripts Risk

Updated initscripts packages that fix a privilege escalation issue and several bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: initscripts security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2006:0015-01 Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0015.html Issue date: 2006-03-15 Updated on: 2006-03-15 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux CVE Names: CVE-2005-3629 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------1. Summary: Updated initscripts packages that fix a privilege escalation issue and several bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64 3. Problem description: The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat system, change runlevels, and shut the system down cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and deactivate most network interfaces. A bug was found in the way initscripts handled various environment variables when the /sbin/service command is run. It is possible for a local user with permissions to execute /sbin/service via sudo to execute arbitrary commands as the 'root' user. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3629 to this issue. The following issues have also been fixed in this update: * extraneous characters were logged on bootup. * fsck would be attempted on filesystems marked with _netdev in rc.sysinit before they wereavailable. Additionally, support for multi-core Itanium processors has been added to redhat-support-check. All users of initscripts should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system. 5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 169403 - Automount of the emcpower device fails if fsck is enabled for the device in /etc/fstab. 171198 - Bogus messages in system log (/var/log/messages) 6. RPMs required: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3: SRPMS: 614de93f1381398420fab545a960a54c initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.src.rpm i386: 5f38fe789667b0c14cdeff55a9fdfb94 initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.i386.rpm ia64: 00672ab9fc961f6efb44e43548216742 initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.ia64.rpm ppc: b79c9567dde9791116264a738172a7ff initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.ppc.rpm s390: 082885c498ad9d3e421aa1b8306582fa initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.s390.rpm s390x: c10f0c1607e4425bc603eba8d5a323ee initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.s390x.rpm x86_64: 0560f3487e88fe78b56163f9cb074d2e initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Desktop version 3: SRPMS: 614de93f1381398420fab545a960a54c initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.src.rpm i386: 5f38fe789667b0c14cdeff55a9fdfb94 initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.i386.rpm x86_64: 0560f3487e88fe78b56163f9cb074d2e initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3: SRPMS: 614de93f1381398420fab545a960a54c initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.src.rpm i386: 5f38fe789667b0c14cdeff55a9fdfb94 initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.i386.rpm ia64: 00672ab9fc961f6efb44e43548216742 initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.ia64.rpm x86_64: 0560f3487e88fe78b56163f9cb074d2e initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3: SRPMS: 614de93f1381398420fab545a960a54c initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.src.rpm i386: 5f38fe789667b0c14cdeff55a9fdfb94 initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.i386.rpm ia64: 00672ab9fc961f6efb44e43548216742 initscripts-7.31.30.EL-1.ia64.rpm x86_64: 0560f3487e88fe78b56163f9cb074d2e initscripts-7.31.30.EL-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://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3629 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2006 Red Hat, Inc. . Changes have been implemented to address a moderate privilege escalation flaw in initscripts, improving security and preventing unauthorized access escalation. Initscripts Fix, Red Hat Update, Privilege Escalation, Linux Update, Security Advisory. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Mar 15, 2006 Red Hat