Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-526-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart program included in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the user running checkrestart.
Affected
debian-goodies vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-3912 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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