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TITLE:
Red Hat update for setroubleshoot

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30339

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30339/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for setroubleshoot. This fixes two
security issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
conduct script insertion attacks and to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

1) The problem is that the "sealert" script uses temporary files in
an insecure manner. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to
overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running
"sealert".
 
2) Input passed via process and file names is not properly sanitised
before being saved when an AVC denial event takes place. This can be
exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed
in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the
malicious logs are viewed.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0061.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288221
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288271

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