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Vulnerability Bulletins


Compromiso root en pwdutils

Vulnerability classification

Property Value
Confidence level Oficial
Impact Compromiso Root
Dificulty Principiante
Required attacker level Acceso remoto con cuenta

System information

Property Value
Affected manufacturer GNU/Linux
Affected software pwdutils

Description

Se ha descubierto una vulnerabilidad en pwdutils. La vulnerabilidad reside en el programa "chfn" que no comprueba correctamente los parámetros al cambiar el campo "GECOS".

Un atacante local podría conseguir privilegios de root.

Exploit público disponible.

Solution



Actualización de software

Suse
SUSE LINUX 10.0 / x86
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/i586/pwdutils-3.0.4-4.2.i586.rpm
SUSE LINUX 10.0 / Power PC
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/ppc/pwdutils-3.0.4-4.2.ppc.rpm
SUSE LINUX 10.0 / x86-64
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/pwdutils-3.0.4-4.2.x86_64.rpm
SUSE LINUX 10.0 / Sources
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/src/pwdutils-3.0.4-4.2.src.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.3 / x86
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/pwdutils-2.6.96-4.2.i586.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.3 / x86-64
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/x86_64/pwdutils-2.6.96-4.2.x86_64.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.3 / Sources
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/src/pwdutils-2.6.96-4.2.src.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.2 / x86
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.2/rpm/i586/pwdutils-2.6.90-6.2.i586.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.2 / x86-64
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.2/rpm/x86_64/pwdutils-2.6.90-6.2.x86_64.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.2 / Sources
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.2/rpm/src/pwdutils-2.6.90-6.2.src.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.1 / x86
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i586/pwdutils-2.6.4-2.18.3.i586.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.1 / x86-64
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.1/rpm/x86_64/pwdutils-2.6.4-2.18.3.x86_64.rpm
SUSE LINUX 9.1 / Sources
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/src/pwdutils-2.6.4-2.18.3.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.1/rpm/src/pwdutils-2.6.4-2.18.3.src.rpm
SuSE Linux 9.0 / x86
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586/shadow-4.0.3-267.i586.rpm
SuSE Linux 9.0 / x86-64
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.0/rpm/x86_64/shadow-4.0.3-267.x86_64.rpm
SuSE Linux 9.0 / Sources
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/src/shadow-4.0.3-267.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.0/rpm/src/shadow-4.0.3-267.src.rpm

Standar resources

Property Value
CVE CVE-2005-3503
BID

Other resources

SUSE Security Advisory (SUSE-SA:2005:064)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_64_pwdutils.html

Version history

Version Comments Date
1.0 Aviso emitido 2005-11-13
1.1 CAN añadido. 2005-12-02
Ministerio de Defensa
CNI
CCN
CCN-CERT