Ubuntu 4.10 : passwd vulnerabilities (USN-17-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20576

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Martin Schulze and Steve Grubb discovered a flaw in the authentication input validation of the 'chfn' and 'chsh' programs. This allowed logged in users with an expired password to change their real name and their login shell without having to change their password.

This flaw cannot lead to privilege escalation and does not allow to modify account properties of other users, so the impact is relatively low.

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

Solution

Update the affected login and / or passwd packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20576

File Name: ubuntu_USN-17-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:passwd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:login

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1001

USN: 17-1

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