Impact
local privilege escalation
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Insufficient shell quoting in yast2-backup allowed local users to craft special file names that inject shell code into the backup process CVE-2008-4636.
Affected
yast2-backup on openSUSE 10.2, openSUSE 10.3, openSUSE 11.0, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, SUSE SLES 9, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux POS 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-4636 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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