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Vulnerability Bulletins


Creación insegura de ficheros temporales en el sistema login de distribuciones Linux

Vulnerability classification

Property Value
Confidence level Oficial
Impact Aumento de privilegios
Dificulty Principiante
Required attacker level Acceso remoto con cuenta

System information

Property Value
Affected manufacturer GNU/Linux
Affected software login

Description

Se ha descubierto una vulnerabilidad en el sistema login de Debian GNU/Linux y posiblemente otras distribuciones. La vulnerabilidad reside en un error en la creación de ficheros temporales inseguros.

Un atacante local perteneciente al grupo "utmp" podría sobreescribir ficheros arbitrarios con permisos privilegiados mediante un ataque de enlace simbólico a un fichero temporal referenciado en un campo de línea en una entrada "utmp".

Exploit público disponible.

Solution



Actualización de software

Debian (DSA-1709-1)

Debian Linux 4.0
Source
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.0.18.1.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.0.18.1-7+etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.0.18.1-7+etch1.dsc
alpha (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_alpha.deb
amd64 (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_amd64.deb
arm (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_arm.deb
hppa (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_hppa.deb
i386 (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_i386.deb
ia64 (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_ia64.deb
mips (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_mips.deb
mipsel (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_mipsel.deb
powerpc (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_powerpc.deb
s390 (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_s390.deb
sparc (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.1-7+etch1_sparc.deb

Standar resources

Property Value
CVE CVE-2008-5394
BID 32552

Other resources

Debian Security Advisory (DSA-1709-1)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00016.html

Version history

Version Comments Date
1.0 Aviso emitido 2009-01-22
Ministerio de Defensa
CNI
CCN
CCN-CERT