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USN-1235-1: Open-iSCSI vulnerability

20 October 2011

iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi could be made to overwrite files as the administrator.

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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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04

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

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