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Important: policycoreutils security update. Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:33:53 -0500 Reply-To: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux From: Jason Harrington Organization: FNAL/CD/REX/SAG Subject: Security ERRATA Important: policycoreutils on SL6.x i386/x86_64 Comments: To: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. MIME-Version: 1.0 Synopsis: Important: policycoreutils security update Issue date: 2011-04-04 CVE Names: CVE-2011-1011 The policycoreutils packages contain the core utilities that are required for the basic operation of a Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) system and its policies. It was discovered that the seunshare utility did not enforce proper file permissions on the directory used as an alternate temporary directory mounted as /tmp/. A local user could use this flaw to overwrite files or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a setuid or setgid application that relies on proper /tmp/ permissions, by running that application via seunshare. (CVE-2011-1011) This update also introduces the following changes: * The seunshare utility was moved from the main policycoreutils subpackage to the policycoreutils-sandbox subpackage. This utility is only required by the sandbox feature and does not need to be installed by default. * Updated selinux-policy packages that add the SELinux policy changes required by the seunshare fixes. All policycoreutils users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. SL 6.x SRPMS: policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.src.rpm selinux-policy-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.src.rpm i386: policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.i686.rpm policycoreutils-gui-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.i686.rpm policycoreutils-newrole-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.i686.rpm policycoreutils-python-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.i686.rpm policycoreutils-sandbox-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.i686.rpm selinux-policy-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-doc-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-minimum-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-mls-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm x86_64: policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.x86_64.rpm policycoreutils-gui-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.x86_64.rpm policycoreutils-newrole-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.x86_64.rpm policycoreutils-python-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.x86_64.rpm policycoreutils-sandbox-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.x86_64.rpm selinux-policy-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-doc-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-minimum-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-mls-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team . Enhance policycoreutils to address critical security vulnerabilities and mitigate potential local privilege elevations in Scientific Linux environments.. policycoreutils update, security issues, Scientific Linux important, local privilege escalation. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 05, 2011
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