Security update for package UTIL-LINUX
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Package: util-linux
Release: 20021008
Obsoletes: none
mount
and umount
program did not set their umask properly. Local attackers could exploit this flaw to write arbitrary content into the /etc/mtab
file because upon creation this file was world writeable. Certain daemons rely on the content of the /etc/mtab
file and could be tricked into using a wrong file system.
rpm -Uvh util-linux.rpm
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