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TITLE:
logrotate Privilege Escalation Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42559

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-12-22

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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been discovered in logrotate, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The logrotate utility does not properly handle symlinked files. This
can be exploited to e.g. change the ownership and permissions of
arbitrary files via symlink attacks.

The security issue is confirmed in version 3.7.9. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Debian bug by Florian Zumbiehl.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Debian Bug #388608:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388608

http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2010/11/msg00024.html

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