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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2020-24331) ELSA-2021-1627: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2020-24331) ELSA-2021-1627: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
05/29/2021
Added
05/26/2021
Modified
05/26/2021

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-trousers
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-trousers-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-trousers-lib

References

  • ELSA-2021-1627
  • CVE-2020-24331

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