The problemcan be used to bypass access restrictions in the web server. Anattacker can view the contents of directories and download filesdirectly rather then receiving their HTML output.
New util-linux packages are available that fix a problem with /bin/login’sPAM implementation. This could, in some non-default setups, cause users toreceive credentials of other users. It is recommended that all usersupdate to the fixed packages.
The initscript distributed with the setserial package (which is not installed or enabled by default) uses predictable temporary file names, and should not be used. setserial-2.17-4 and earlier versions are affected.
A security hole has been found that does not affect the default configuration of Red Hat Linux, but can affect some custom configurations of Red Hat Linux 7.1 only. The bug is specific to the Linux 2.4 kernel series.
Several buffer overflows were found which allow an attacker to make tcpdump crash.
58 queries. 8.25 mb Memory usage. 1.345 seconds.