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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-24332: Moderate: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1627)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-24332: Moderate: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1627)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/20/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the creation of the system.data file is prone to symlink attacks. The tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, which could possibly lead to a DoS attack.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-trousers
  • alma-upgrade-trousers-devel
  • alma-upgrade-trousers-lib

References

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