CVE-2011-3589 Information

Description

The Red Hat mkdumprd script for kexec-tools as distributed in the kexec-tools 1.x before 1.102pre-154 and 2.x before 2.0.0-209 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses world-readable permissions for vmcore files which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by inspecting the file content as demonstrated by a search for a root SSH key.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1532.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0152.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716439