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Security ERRATA Low: sos on SL6.x
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:12:20 -0600
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Synopsis:    Low: sos security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Issue Date:  2011-12-06
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-4083


Sos is a set of tools that gather information about system hardware and
configuration.

The sosreport utility incorrectly included aspects of TUV's Certificate-based
private entitlement keys in the resulting archive of debugging
information. An attacker able to access the archive could use the keys to
access that content available to the host. This issue did not
affect users of the 'Classic' access method. (CVE-2011-4083)

This updated sos package also includes numerous bug fixes and enhancements.


All users of sos are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
contains backported patches to correct these issues and add these
enhancements.

SL6:
  noarch
     sos-2.2-17.el6.noarch.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team

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