A vulnerability has been identified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in the "capp-lspp-config" script (included with the lspp-eal4-config-ibm and capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages) that sets "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" file to world-writable, which could allow malicious and unprivileged users to gain additional access, or to escalate their privileges [...]
Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
Credits
Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-04-02 : Initial release
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