[USN-15-1] lvm10 vulnerability

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-15-1 November 01, 2004
lvm10 vulnerability
CAN-2004-0972
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)

The following packages are affected:

lvm10

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 1:1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

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.

  Source archives:

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5: 27099 b87fc84fed491516e4e2057bc0652719
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1.dsc
      Size/MD5: 592 4d5e013f2fd7cbcc1c6bc5ff7366dc0a
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.8.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5: 373482 f8520b9e100970ff13328fd08eb64dcd

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10-udeb_1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1_amd64.udeb
      Size/MD5: 148450 8816c86456067aeb7d9699e0b74622d7
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5: 2815002 12220b8d61f7337719319e0ba95dcb43

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10-udeb_1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1_i386.udeb
      Size/MD5: 136026 e617dc5e7c0438b49d687555f8637cd0
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5: 2577444 163b80ba243d00485dd81eacd21f871f

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10-udeb_1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1_powerpc.udeb
      Size/MD5: 166150 49d715de0b5e02f4b417941dba02f8a8
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.8-4ubuntu1.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5: 3290288 996737daaba53de763ae8138daf13f1b