Ubuntu: 1078-1: Logwatch vulnerability


 
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Old 03-01-2011
Ubuntu: 1078-1: Logwatch vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: Dominik George discovered that logwatch did not properly sanitizelog file names that were passed to the shell as part of a command.If a remote attacker were able to generate specially crafted filenames(for example, via Samba logging), they could execute arbitrary codewith root privileges. [More...]

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