Here's the link my good man

http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5OP0S2A6KI.html

> Can we have some linkage? I didn't find any information about it on
> logwatch.org or linuxsecurity.com.
>
> Cheers,
> Ash
>
> Bailey Kong wrote:
>
>>if you haven't heard yet, root account can be compromised by a local
>>account using logwatch.
>>
>>the current work around i got was to chattr +i /etc/passwd
>>
>>that makes it so /etc/passwd can't be modified, if and when you need to
>>add a user you can simply do chattr -i /etc/passwd
>>
>>i hope no one has gotten compromised yet
>>
>>Bailey



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