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TITLE:
Red Hat lspp-eal4-config-ibm / capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp Privilege
Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29642

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29642/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13651/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13653/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/product/13652/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has acknowledged a security issue in the lspp-eal4-config-ibm
and capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to an error within the
"capp-lspp-config" script, resulting in the "/etc/pam.d/system-auth"
file being world-writeable. This can be exploited to gain escalated
privileges.

NOTE: This only affects systems deployed using the vulnerable
packages as system kickstart script.

SOLUTION:
Use updated packages.

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/eal/EAL4_RHEL5/IBM/RPMS/lspp-eal4-config-ibm-0.65-2.el5.noarch.rpm
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/eal/EAL4_RHEL5/HP/RPMS/capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp-0.65-2.el5.noarch.rpm

For systems deployed with the old packages, apply correct file
permissions by performing the following action as root user:
chmod 0644 /etc/pam.d/system-auth

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0193.html

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