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Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart program included
in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local
attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the user running
checkrestart.
Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart program included
in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local
attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the user running
checkrestart.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.04 feisty | debian-goodies – 0.27ubuntu0.1 | ||
| 6.10 edgy | debian-goodies – 0.23ubuntu0.6.10.1 | ||
| 6.06 dapper | debian-goodies – 0.23ubuntu0.6.06.1 | ||
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