Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1308-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
vladz discovered that executables compressed by bzexe insecurely create temporary files when they are ran. A local attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code as the user running a compressed executable.
Affected
bzip2 on Ubuntu 11.04 ,
Ubuntu 10.10 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-4089 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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