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TITLE:
grsecurity RBAC User Transition Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29899

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29899/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
grsecurity 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3419/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in grsecurity, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error in the RBAC system when
enforcing the "user_transition_deny" and "user_transition_allow"
rules. This can be exploited to bypass the affected rules in calls to
"sys_setfsuid()" and "sys_setfsgid()".

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 2.1.11-2.6.24.5
(2008-04-21) and 2.1.11-2.4.36.2 (2008-04-21).

SOLUTION:
Update to 2.1.11-2.6.24.5 (2008-04-21) or 2.1.11-2.4.36.2
(2008-04-21).
http://www.grsecurity.org/download.php

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.grsecurity.org/news.php

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