USN-1235-1: Open-iSCSI vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• open-iscsi - Open Source iSCSI implementation

Details

Colin Watson discovered that iscsi_discovery in Open-iSCSI did not safely
create temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this to to overwrite
arbitrary files with root privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04

• open-iscsi - 2.0.865-1ubuntu3.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-1297