USN-15-1: lvm10 vulnerability
2 November 2004
lvm10 vulnerability
Releases
Details
Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in a
supplemental script of the lvm10 package. The program
"lvmcreate_initrd" created a temporary directory in an insecure way,
which could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary
files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 4.10
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lvm10
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.