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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2917-1 (super - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
John Lightsey of the Debian Security Audit project discovered that the super package did not check for setuid failures, allowing local users to increase the privileges on kernel versions which do not guard against RLIMIT_NPROC attacks.
Affected Software
Affected Software
super on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.30.0-3+squeeze2. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.30.0-6+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your super packages.