TITLE:
Red Hat update for initscripts

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19162

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19162/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4669/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
http://secunia.com/product/4668/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4670/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for initscripts. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
certain environment variables when the "/sbin/service" command is
run. This can be exploited by local users with permissions to execute
/sbin/service via sudo to execute arbitrary commands as the "root"
user.

Note: Several bugs have also been fixed.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0016.html

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