Saturday, October 9, 2010

LVM2: denial of service vulnerability

Users of LVM2 please be advised of a denial of service vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-1001-1: [USN-1001-1] LVM2 vulnerability
Details follow:



The cluster logical volume manager daemon (clvmd) in LVM2 did not correctly

validate credentials. A local user could use this flaw to manipulate

logical volumes without root privileges and cause a denial of service in

the cluster.


Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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