Red Hat livecd-tools before 13.4.4, 17.x before 17.17, 18.x before 18.16, and 19.x before 19.3, when a rootpw directive is not set in a Kickstart file, sets the root user password to empty, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Added a couple features to livecd-iso-to-disk (--updates and --ks) and fixed a traceback when there are dependency problems running livecd-creator. Require rsync The livecd-tools package provides support for reading and executing Kickstart files in order to create a system image. It was discovered that livecd-tools gave the root user an empty password rather than leaving the password locked in situations where no 'rootpw' directive was used or when the 'rootpw
--lock' directive was used within the Kickstart file, which could allow local users to gain access to the root account. (CVE-2013-2069)

Please note that livecd-tools is also used by appliance-tools to create images used for virtual machines, USB based systems, and so on.
Additionally, the Python script components of livecd-tools have been broken out into a separate package named python-imgcreate on some distributions (such as Fedora).

Acknowledgements :

Red Hat would like to thank Amazon Web Services for reporting this issue. Amazon Web Services acknowledges Sylvain Beucler as the original reporter.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Some fixed for running from F19 host. The livecd-tools package provides support for reading and executing Kickstart files in order to create a system image. It was discovered that livecd-tools gave the root user an empty password rather than leaving the password locked in situations where no 'rootpw' directive was used or when the 'rootpw
--lock' directive was used within the Kickstart file, which could allow local users to gain access to the root account. (CVE-2013-2069)

Please note that livecd-tools is also used by appliance-tools to create images used for virtual machines, USB based systems, and so on.
Additionally, the Python script components of livecd-tools have been broken out into a separate package named python-imgcreate on some distributions (such as Fedora).

Acknowledgements :

Red Hat would like to thank Amazon Web Services for reporting this issue. Amazon Web Services acknowledges Sylvain Beucler as the original reporter.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The livecd-tools package provides support for reading and executing Kickstart files in order to create a system image. It was discovered that livecd-tools gave the root user an empty password rather than leaving the password locked in situations where no 'rootpw' directive was used or when the 'rootpw --lock' directive was used within the Kickstart file, which could allow local users to gain access to the root account. (CVE-2013-2069)

Please note that livecd-tools is also used by appliance-tools to create images used for virtual machines, USB based systems, and so on.
Additionally, the Python script components of livecd-tools have been broken out into a separate package named python-imgcreate on some distributions (such as Fedora).

Acknowledgements :

Red Hat would like to thank Amazon Web Services for reporting this issue. Amazon Web Services acknowledges Sylvain Beucler as the original reporter.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
70202	Fedora 18 : livecd-tools-18.17-1.fc18 (2013-13131)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
67385	Fedora 19 : livecd-tools-19.4-1.fc19 (2013-9827)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
67350	Fedora 17 : livecd-tools-17.17-1.fc17 (2013-9111)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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