Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1235-1
20th October, 2011
open-iscsi vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Summary
iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi could be made to overwrite files as the administrator.
Software description
- 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 version:
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
- open-iscsi 2.0.865-1ubuntu3.5
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.