openSUSE Security Update: aaa_base security update ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0171-1 Rating: moderate References: #665479 Cross-References: CVE-2011-0461 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 openSUSE 11.2 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
The boot.localfs init script wrote a file to /dev/shm during shut-down. Since local users may create symlinks there a malicious user could cause corruption of arbitrary files (CVE-2011-0461).
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 11.3:
zypper in -t patch aaa_base-3906
- openSUSE 11.2:
zypper in -t patch aaa_base-3906
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64):
aaa_base-11.3-8.7.1
- openSUSE 11.2 (i586 x86_64):
aaa_base-11.2-43.48.1
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479