Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1543-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that the perl Config::IniFiles module created temporary files in an unsafe manner. A local user with write access to the directory containing a configuration file that Config-IniFiles manipulates could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files.
Affected
libconfig-inifiles-perl on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 11.10 ,
Ubuntu 11.04 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-2451 -
CVSS Base Score: 3.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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