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Ubuntu alert USN-15-1 (lvm10)
| From: | Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com> | |
| To: | ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com | |
| Subject: | [USN-15-1] lvm10 vulnerability | |
| Date: | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 23:52:52 +0100 | |
| Cc: | bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com |
=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-15-1 November 01, 2004 lvm10 vulnerability CAN-2004-0972 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) The following packages are affected: lvm10 The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in a supplemental script of the lvm10 package. The program "lvmcreate_initrd" created a temporary directory in an insecure way, which could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Source archives: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 27099 b87fc84fed491516e4e2057bc0652719 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 592 4d5e013f2fd7cbcc1c6bc5ff7366dc0a http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 373482 f8520b9e100970ff13328fd08eb64dcd amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 148450 8816c86456067aeb7d9699e0b74622d7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 2815002 12220b8d61f7337719319e0ba95dcb43 i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 136026 e617dc5e7c0438b49d687555f8637cd0 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 2577444 163b80ba243d00485dd81eacd21f871f powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 166150 49d715de0b5e02f4b417941dba02f8a8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10... Size/MD5: 3290288 996737daaba53de763ae8138daf13f1b -- ubuntu-security-announce mailing list ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-...
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