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Rocky Linux: CVE-2020-24332: trousers (RLSA-2021-1627)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2020-24332: trousers (RLSA-2021-1627)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
03/13/2024
Added
03/12/2024
Modified
03/12/2024

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)

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

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