A trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for AlmaLinux.

ALSA-2021:1627 Moderate: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type:
security

Severity:
moderate

Release date:
2021-05-18

Description
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: trousers (0.3.15). (BZ#1725782)
Security Fix(es):
* trousers: tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file if tcsd is started as root (CVE-2020-24331)
* trousers: tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, this could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-24332)
* trousers: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed (CVE-2020-24330)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

References:
CVE-2020-24330
CVE-2020-24331
CVE-2020-24332

Updates packages:
trousers-0.3.15-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
trousers-devel-0.3.15-1.el8.i686.rpm
trousers-devel-0.3.15-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
trousers-lib-0.3.15-1.el8.i686.rpm
trousers-lib-0.3.15-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Notes:
This page is generated automatically and has not been checked for errors. For clarification or corrections please contact the AlmaLinux Packaging Team.

  ALSA-2021:1627 Moderate: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update