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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-24331: Moderate: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1627)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-24331: Moderate: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1627)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/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 tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file (which contains various settings related to this daemon).

Solution(s)

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

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