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

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

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
06/01/2021
Added
06/01/2021
Modified
05/25/2023

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)

  • centos-upgrade-trousers
  • centos-upgrade-trousers-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-trousers-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-trousers-lib
  • centos-upgrade-trousers-lib-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2020-24332

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