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USN-15-1: lvm10 vulnerability

2 November 2004

lvm10 vulnerability

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Releases

Details

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in a
supplemental script of the lvm10 package. The program
"lvmcreate_initrd" created a temporary directory in an insecure way,
which could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary
files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 4.10
  • lvm10 -

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

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