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SuSE 8.1 security update for util-linux

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SuSE 8.1 security update for util-linux

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/01/2004
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/01/2004
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

The system is missing one or more SuSE security patches. Security update: The mount and umount program did not set their umaskproperly. Local attackers could exploit this flaw to write arbitrarycontent into the mtab file because upon creation this file was worldwriteable.

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