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ELSA-2012-0152 Moderate: Oracle Linux kexec-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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ELSA-2012-0152 Moderate: Oracle Linux kexec-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/07/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/23/2012
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

The Red Hat mkdumprd script for kexec-tools, as distributed in the kexec-tools 1.x before 1.102pre-154 and 2.x before 2.0.0-209 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, includes all of root's SSH private keys within a vmcore file, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by inspecting the file content.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kexec-tools

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