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Vulnerability Bulletins


Vulnerabilidad en la herramienta useradd del paquete shadow-utils

Vulnerability classification

Property Value
Confidence level Oficial
Impact Integridad
Dificulty Experto
Required attacker level Acceso remoto con cuenta

System information

Property Value
Affected manufacturer GNU/Linux
Affected software shadow-utils / useradd

Description

Se ha descubierto una vulnerabilidad en la herramienta useradd. La vulnerabilidad reside en el uso inseguro de la llamada al sistema open() cuando se crea una nueva bandeja de correo (mailbox) para el usuario.

La vulnerabilidad abre una ventana de tiempo, hasta que se realiza un fchmod() adecuadamente, en la que es posible leer o escribir en dicha mailbox.

Solution



Mandriva Linux

Corporate Server 3.0
x86
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/corporate/3.0/RPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-8.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-8.2.C30mdk.src.rpm
X86_64
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-8.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-8.2.C30mdk.src.rpm

Multi Network Firewall 2.0
x86
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/mnf/2.0/RPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-8.2.M20mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/mnf/2.0/SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-8.2.M20mdk.src.rpm

Mandrivalinux LE2005
x86
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.2/RPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-9.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.2/SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-9.1.102mdk.src.rpm
X86_64
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/x86_64/10.2/RPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-9.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-9.1.102mdk.src.rpm

Red Hat (RHSA-2007:0431-4)
Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)
https://rhn.redhat.com/

SGI
Advanced Linux Environment 3 / RPM / Patch 10421
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/RPMS
Advanced Linux Environment 3 / SRPM / Patch 10421
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/SRPMS

VMware (VMSA-2007-0006)
VMware Workstation 6.0.1
VMware Workstation 5.5.5
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ws5.html
VMware Player 2.0.1
VMware Player 1.0.5
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
VMware Server 1.0.4
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
VMware ACE 2.0.1
VMware ACE 1.0.4
http://www.vmware.com/download/ace/
VMware ESX 3.0.2 / patches ESX-1001725 ESX-1001731 ESX-1001726 ESX-1001727 ESX-1001728 ESX-1001729 ESX-1001730
VMware ESX 3.0.1 / patches ESX-8258730 ESX-1001213 ESX-1001691 ESX-1001723 ESX-1001214 ESX-1001692 ESX-1001693 ESX-1001694 ESX-8253547 ESX-8567382
VMware ESX 3.0.0 / patches ESX-4809553 ESX-1001204 ESX-1001206 ESX-1001212 ESX-1001205 ESX-1001207 ESX-1001208 ESX-1001209 ESX-1001210 ESX-1001211
VMware ESX 2.5.4 / patch 10
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200708-patch.html
VMware ESX 2.5.3 / patch 13
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-253-200708-patch.html
VMware ESX 2.1.3 / patch 8
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx-213-200708-patch.html
VMware ESX 2.0.2 / patch 8
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/esx-202-200708-patch.html

Standar resources

Property Value
CVE CVE-2006-1174
BID

Other resources

Mandriva Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:090
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:090

Red Hat Security Advisory (RHSA-2007:0431-4)
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0431.html

SGI Security Advisory (20070602-01-P)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc

VMware security advisory (VMSA-2007-0006)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-09/0356.html

Version history

Version Comments Date
1.0 Aviso emitido 2006-05-25
1.1 Aviso emitido por Red Hat (RHSA-2007:0431-4) 2007-06-12
1.2 Aviso emitido por SGI (20070602-01-P) 2007-06-29
1.3 Aviso emitido por VMware (VMSA-2007-0006) 2007-09-25