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Red Hat: CVE-2020-24332: tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, this could lead to DoS (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-24332: tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, this could lead to DoS (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
05/21/2021
Added
05/21/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-trousers
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-lib
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-lib-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2020-24332
  • RHSA-2021:1627

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